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[Jordi Fabre]

Welcome to the Tucson Show 2020 celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Mineralogical Record magazine!🎈🎂⚒


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European correspondent of the Tucson Gem and Mineral Show®

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[Linda Smith]

Hope to see you.

[James Catmur]

Hope to hear more as the show progresses

[Gail]

[Tobi]

All who are not there are eagerly awaiting the annual Gail Report ...!!!

:-)

[Joseph DOliveira]

The end of on era as the past Executive Inn & Suites, now the Fortuna Inn & suites is being torn down. Once the hub of the Tucson show for many of us, the hotel has slowly deteriorated as the vendors moved on to other more suitable localities.

[bob kerr]

Yesterday was what some consider as the start of "Tucson Shows" - The Arizona Sonora Desert Museum holds it annual "Mineral Madness - early preview" for members of the Tucson Gem and Mineral Society. This year was special as the first wave of two major collections that were donated to the museum were put out for sale and the quality was very good indeed. I was able to pick up a terrific Dalnegorst Quartz for $18 - see photo. All proceeds went to the museum.

However, the highlight of the evening was when someone inside yelled out - WOW! look outside. It had been cloudy and rainy all day so no one expected much of a sunset but the photos below show what we all were treated to.

I plan on again posting periodic reports - hope you all enjoy them.

bob

[Jordi Fabre]

[Jordi Fabre]

Barcelona 18/01/2019

Curiously, one of the biggest novelties of Tucson 2020 will be Tucson 2021!

We have seen in the images of Joseph d'Oliveira the decline of the Executive Inn Hotel, which was for many years the most important Hotel in Tucson, and in 2020 we will see the end of its successor, the HTCC Hotel that on 2021 ends because the Arizona Mineral & Fossil Show leaves it and moves in block to the Hotel El Conquistador and this will produce a 180º change in the entire structure of the whole Fair.

The Westward Look and the Tucson Gem and Mineral Show® (Main Show) will remain unchanged but the so-called "Satellite Shows" will have to be re-organized.
Will be the Oracle street the new heart of the Show with The Mineral City Show in front or will El Conquistador take that heart of the Fair to the North and the axis El Conquistador-Westward Look will be decisive in the future?

Chi lo sa? the life is change


More to come...
European correspondent of the Tucson Gem and Mineral Show®

[Don Lum]

[John S. White]

Who is the "US" that we are asked to join?

[bob kerr]

[rweaver]

Some of us can remember when the old Desert Inn was the place to go for minerals other then the main show. And there where fewer other hotels that had minerals worth going to. I miss those days.

[Arizona Show]

Hi John: The "us" in the invite is from me.....Laura L. Delano, President, of LLD Productions, Inc., d/b/a Arizona Mineral & Fossil Show and its hard working staff: Vic Rzonca, Rose Zinn, Marty Zinn, Brent Delano, Gretchen Berrie, Kevin Karmorsky and Joe Holbrook

Hope you will join us for the tour! It is a gorgeous venue! Relaxing, GREEN, pools (5), mountains, golf courses and lots and lots of selling spaces; ballrooms, meeting rooms, selling rooms and sleeping rooms for guest to get away from the dust, the dirt, the noise, the parking problems.....

[John S. White]

Hi Laura:

Would love to join you but I don't get to Tucson until Feb. 1. Very sorry.

John