MADDYFEST 2000
August 5, 2000
- Downtown Athletic
Center - New York City
PHOTO PAGE
- All photos on this
page were taken by Kim Weldon - thanks, Kim!
- For info about the 1999 MaddyFest convention in
New York City, CLICK HERE
- For info about the 2002 Madonna convention
(MLVC 2002) in Detroit, CLICK
HERE
- For info about the 2003 Boston Madonna Convention
(Kingdom Fine Arts), CLICK
HERE
- For info about the 2003 MaddyFest convention in
New York City, CLICK HERE
- For info about the 2004 Re-Invention Convention
(We Frame It Gallery), CLICK HERE
- For info about the 2005 Convention on a Dance
Floor, CLICK HERE
- For info about all other shows and conventions,
CLICK HERE
- NOTES ON MADDYFEST 2000:
- Last year (for MaddyFest
'99), I spent an entire week preparing. This year, for MaddyFest
2000, I spent TWO MONTHS getting everything ready! There were
items and supplies to be bought, things to get organized, wrapped,
priced, and loaded on the truck, etc.). There was so much do
to! Luckily, I had my best friend in the whole world, Kim, to
help me out. It took an entire day just to pack up the truck
with all the stuff we brought. It was a seven-hour drive from
Boston to New York City (including our 3 stops along the way
for food and stuff). We arrived in New York at about 9:30pm on
Friday the 4th, and stayed in the Club Quarters Hotel (right
near Wall Street). We didn't get much sleep on Friday night,
mostly because we were so excited! On Saturday morning, we got
up at 7:00am. We didn't arrive at the Downtown Athletic Center
until 9:30 in the morning, because we got kinda lost (we ended
up in the Battery Tunnel, and had to pay a $3.50 toll for nothing).
Later on that day, I found out that a LOT of other customers
made the same mistake! Anyhow, we finally started setting up
our 24-foot long table at about 10:00am. The doors opened to
the Madonna fans at 12:00 noon. The four of us (Myself, Kim,
William, and Emma) finished setting up everything just in time
for the fans! It took us exactly two hours to set everything
up, which was an amazing feat, considering how much stuff we
had! We had even built a 6-foot high by 24-foot long wall of
pegboard, to hang up records and magazines (see the photos).
It looked really great!
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- Thanks to my best friend Kim, for helping
out so well, and for taking all those pictures at MaddyFest,
while I helped customers at our table. Thanks to EMMA for keeping
an eye on things, lifting heavy boxes, and for keeping us company.
Special thanks to William, for paying for the pizza Friday night.
And most of all, thanks to my father for lending us his HUGE
Dodge Ram 2500 extended-cab pickup truck
that we used to haul all the stuff down to New York! We actually
had to build a special wooden "box" on top of the back
of the truck, to hold all the stuff - it's not shown in the photo,
but just building that special "cap" was a LOT of work!
thanks to my dad for helping me out!
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- Most of all, THANKS to all of you who stopped
by our Madonna Catalog table. We made a lot of new friends, and
I finally got to meet a lot of my long-time customers! We really
appreciate your business, and look forward to helping you in
the future. I hope you enjoyed our booth, it was a LOT of work
setting it all up!
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- A special hello to Mike
Colacurto, Danny Echi, Beth
Germano, Jeannie Buxo, Matt
Rettenmund, Nick Mendoros, Julio
Perez, and anyone that we forgot. We had a GREAT time at MaddyFest
2000, and look forward to next year's activities!
Matt
Rettenmund, author of the incredible book ENCYCLOPEDIA
MADONNICA at his table. He mostly offered rare magazines
for sale.
Other vendors at the show,
including the ALL ACCESS FAN CLUB, who sold mostly magazines
and counter stands. In the first photo above, Jeannie has a "Magazine
Blowout Sale." In the second photo, the handsome Scott shows
off his magazines.
Peter
Kentes offers for sale six different and very RARE photos he
took of Madonna. These photos will be available through THE MADONNA
CATALOG within the next few weeks (as soon as I finish working
out a deal with Peter, we will officially offer these prints
for sale).
-
Nathan works
at the entrance to MaddyFest 2000 by selling tickets and memorabilia.
He was nice enough to give me a beautiful framed print of Madonna!
One
of the many performers at MaddyFest; these guys did an amazing
original LIVE rendition of "Drowned World / Substitute For
Love"
PHOTOS TAKEN AT THE MADONNA CATALOG'S TABLE:
A
HUGE birthday card that was sent to Madonna, after a bunch of
fans signed their names and best wishes inside.
Nick
Mendoros from the ALL ACCESS fan club, along with a friend
Rob,
"Madonna's #1 fan," performs "American Pie"
- You know I'll take you there........
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Matt
Rettenmund, author of the incredible book ENCYCLOPEDIA
MADONNICA at his table. He mostly offered rare magazines
for sale.
Other vendors at the show,
including the ALL ACCESS FAN CLUB, who sold mostly magazines
and counter stands. In the first photo above, Jeannie has a "Magazine
Blowout Sale." In the second photo, the handsome Scott shows
off his magazines.
Peter
Kentes offers for sale six different and very RARE photos he
took of Madonna. These photos will be available through THE MADONNA
CATALOG within the next few weeks (as soon as I finish working
out a deal with Peter, we will officially offer these prints
for sale).
Nathan works
at the entrance to MaddyFest 2000 by selling tickets and memorabilia.
He was nice enough to give me a beautiful framed print of Madonna!
One
of the many performers at MaddyFest; these guys did an amazing
original LIVE rendition of "Drowned World / Substitute For
Love"
