Good Morning All,
This might be a dumb question; but i was just wondering if the correct address for the York meet next month was in fact 334 Carlilse Ave in York? This is my first year attending and i just want to make sure i have gotten the correct address. Any help would be appreciated. Have a good day all!
That is the street address for the Fairgrounds/Expo Center property.
Kevin…You just just hit one of my hot buttons, organizations that don’t provide an actual street address for an event, meeting, show, etc. Many times I get invitations and it will provide the location in localisms, such as the “Backward Township Fire Station No. 5” in Bugwater. I don’t even know where Bugwater is located, let alone the Fire Station.[2c]
BTW, the York Show is easy to find. [Y] You will have a great time and learn so much about the hobby.
http://www.yorkfair.org/find_us.htm
“How to find us”
Thank You. Looking forward to it. Wish it was tomorrow.
Interesting. For years we’ve been telling our radio advertising clients to use landmarks (such as “Williston Road, just past McDonald’s”).
This is because businesses almost never have a street address posted large enough for the typical motorist to find. I’ve never used a GPS thingy, but I’m guessing that they use street addresses?
You must excuse my ignorance, as I’m a navigation-snob. I always study road-maps before a trip, and have never been lost. Ever. When I sail, my navigation tool is an oil-filled box compass on gimbals.
So… should we start to advise our clients to use street addresses in their ads? Are there enough folks using these GPS thingies to justify it?
Jon [8D]
Well Jon i would think that it might not be a bad idea. Not that reading maps is a bad thing; but almost everyone i know now a days has a GPS, or an IPhone which is basically the samething. So i am for the street address being advertised so all have a street number to reference.
-Kevin
Jon I’m like you but I would say most today have the gps thingy one way or another. So yes it should be in adds Iwould think. Glad to see you posting didn’t see you for a while did notice about two weeks or so you where posting again.
We live in a state where nobody wants a cell tower in their backyard, so spending the cash for an iPhone seems superfluous. I remember when we hosted the TCA Convention, and the first thing folks wanted to know was why the cell-phone net was down.
It wasn’t “down”… it’s nonexistent!
Jon [8D]
Jon, My [2c]
I don’t have and don’t want any of those GPS mobile things but I do like to look up a street address on mapquest or google before I leave for someplace new. I then do a satellite view and find the landmarks myself. So I think both landmarks and street address would be good. As for the younger croud,The mobile devices are all they have ever known ( we bought them the stuff ) so it is not their fault if they can’t find there way out of the woods. [:-^]
Jon…I started using GPS as a land surveyor many years ago. Our first systems were the size of a suitcase. GPS offers cost savings by drastically reducing setup time at the survey site and providing incredible accuracy. Expensive systems are available that can provide accuracies to less than a centimeter if you know how to use them. Needless to say the higher the cost the more accurate.
As to GPS one can buy at Best Buy or Walmart, I’m on my second Garmin. Both the car and the truck have built in GPS. My IPhone has GPS, too and yes it works off of the triangulation from the cell towers where my Garmin uses satellites. I use the Garmin in rental cars all the time. I will fly to a city, such as Phoenix and then use the Garmin to find my destination. Many times I reach my destination in the dark and it sure beats trying to read street signs. If I get off track, pardon the pun, miss a turn or drive past a destination, it recalculates and gets me there. The new ones come with lifetime map updates. You don’t need an address to use them either. There are about six to eight methods in finding a location including a crosshairs on a map. When you get close to an urban destination, it will also find the parking lots. I use this feature in Cleveland all the time.
Just last week in Washington, DC where I exited Union Station and needed to find 25 Massachusetts Ave, I used the IPhone GPS. It worked perfect and we walked right to the front door. You could even watch the dot on the map move as we strode to our destination. </
Good point!
Jon [8D]
I don’t have a GPS. Now, if I was going to York, I would buy a road map. Just my [2c].
Chuck
Here is a easy way that I take: From route 30 West, take the route 74/Carlisle Ave. exit, and at the end of the ramp, go left (from 30E, go right). If you want to park by the Orange Hall, get in the right lane, which curves right, into Highland Ave. The fairgrounds will be on your left. Enter, and the first building is the Toyota/Orange Hall.
If you want to park elsewhere, continue straight on 74/ Carlisle Ave and enter the fairgrounds on the right at the light.
GPS? Maps? Homing pigeons? Fuhgedaboudit… Once you get on 83 or 30, just follow all the middle aged males with out-of-state plates (some with LIONEL trim). Can’t miss.[Y][8D]
And once you are in the Fair Grounds, if you do not have an advance ticket, you will need to find the BLUE/SILVER Hall to register and get a name badge.
Ya Don,
I tried to have my Dad get the advanced tickets; but being as this is our first time he wanted to see how things were going to be. We are planning on being there early for the registration part, so hopefully it won’t gobble up too much time away from all the sites that are in Orange Hall, as I hear that is the main hall that everyone seems to go to.