Show Daily, LLC The only “Who’s Who” guide to Texas’ most important antiques event
ROUND TOP WARRENTON FAYETTEVILLE CARMINE BURTON OLDENBURG & BEYOND
Editor and Publisher Roberto Alvarado General Manager Natasha Shepherd Graphic Design Cynthia Casarrubias Bello Publicity Sean Godfrey Collaborators Troy Clark Larris Wright Joe Hickey Lou Christine Robert Jr Jehan Medina News Office and Correspondence 6231 State Hwy 159 Rutersville / La Grange, Texas 78945 WE STAY OPEN LATE Mobile phone: 979-250-1494 | 979-208-9627 Office phone: 979-249-4149 Email: showdaily@gmail.com Website: www.showdailymagazine.com Join us at the COLLECTORS CLUB, Rutersville Convention Center 6231 State Hwy 159 Rutersville, Texas 78945 Antique, art, folk & art Open all year. Deadline: All material for submission must be received by July 15 for the Fall edition & January 15 for the Spring edition. The Show Daily reserves the right to edit all material for style and content. Thanks for your support, and please send your information on time!
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FROM THE EDI TOR’S DESK
I clearly remember the early days of Show Daily’s beginnings. Some people said it was a pretty nutty idea. Well, here we are today, Spring 2022, bringing you issue number 44, twenty-some years later. I guess our hundreds of advertisers and thousands of readers must think the idea wasn’t so bad after all. So, for this issue I will not request another drum roll because it’s business as usual and the news is still exciting. A couple of dear old antiquer friends of mine from Santa Fe N.M., Jim Jeter and Jeff Hengesbaugh liked to regale the beginning of each WHITE HAWK Antique Indian and Ethnographic Art Show in Santa Fe with their rallying declaration “ we’re off to the plunder and the pillage”, while dressed in full authentic cowboy gear, hat, boots, and even furry chaps. Hilarious as they were, these guys were always very serious about what they sought out. Exclusively early old west and frontier relics and Spanish colonial antiquities. Fast forward to this spring issue and see how it has inspired our cover headline and photos. In particular, one of our feature articles, Under the Yum Yum Tree by none other than Lou Christine. It’s the boys under the big oak tree in Stone Meadow field in Warrenton. They appear overnight like the three musketeers. They’re in and out like modern-day Zorros....” here we are to save the day” It’s a must-read story, if you, claim to be a real player in the antiques ‘schtick’. For the last 30 years their rapid in and out tactics to unload their off erings have been enigmatic, to say the least, and probably a best-kept secret as the few who due attend would never reveal the place or time even if they were submitted to water-board torture. On the cover, this spring issue has revealed for the first time their true identity. Don’t you dare miss it. And whatever you do, please don’t tell them you saw it here. I certainly don’t want to lose my preferred customer status with these fine gentlemen. Kooky, funky, and folksy are some of the words that have been used to describe our publication. That may be valid because our readers love it that way. It’s like the stuff they deal in. Quirky repurposed, stylish folk-art. We find beauty in nature’s rocks and even the discarded rusty junk piles. The imagination and creativity meet the hands of the many entrepreneurs and voila.... a work of art is born. Sort of like our Show Daily. No one in our tiny staff has had any formal training in the production of magazines. We have been winging it all these years and to the amazement of the pros... It’s pretty well done. Folk art is produced by artists with no formal art schooling yet we thrive because it’s our passion and love. That’s another great feature written by Lou ....’ It’s RUST Whose Shoulders We Stand On’. page 62. As for me, I’m not getting any younger and like that fun carnival machine that invites you to drop your quarters in and watch as your coins start pushing the other fool’s coins that will hopefully drop into the payout bin...I’m one of those lonesome quarters ready to be claimed by some new owner. Ha; .... What an imagination don’t ya think? In the meantime, have another happy, safe, bountiful, fulfilling shopping experience at the greatest Texas Antiques Extravaganza ever. We love you. R.A.
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