Soaking Up Some Salvage at the Fest
At Saturday’s Salvage Fest, the sun was shining (a little too hard but we can’t complain), most of the dealers showed up on time and attendees (some of whom came from as far as Chicago) showed up in droves, some with measuring tapes in hand, to see what all the fuss was about. Thanks to…
At Saturday’s Salvage Fest, the sun was shining (a little too hard but we can’t complain), most of the dealers showed up on time and attendees (some of whom came from as far as Chicago) showed up in droves, some with measuring tapes in hand, to see what all the fuss was about. Thanks to everyone who made the effort to come and helped make it a special day for us. (We particulaly enjoyed getting a chance to meet so many readers!) In addition, a special thanks to Principal Wrighton, Amy Oztan from the PTA and Councilwoman James for helping to make the event possible. And, of course, a big shout-out to all the dealers (listed on the jump) who took a chance on a first-time event. It’s safe to say we’ll be doing more of this type of event in the future. Lots of photos in the Flickr set on the link; or view as a slideshow here.
Salvage Fest Photo Set [Flickr]
Silver Fox
Moon River Chattel
Olde Good Things
Demolition Depot
Build It Green
Reclaimed Home
Architectural Salvage News
Eddie’s Salvage
Suzanne’s Salvage
actually IP address logging and banning is pretty standard stuff for web sites, and certainly most blog software has this built in for obvious reasons.
in these situations the problem is just the trolls but those who feed them …
Thanks Bob, I’ve tried it on different computers, and tried all the other “tricks” like deleting my cookies and passwords, but not different browsers – only IE. I’ll look for you next time. Tell me what shirt you’ll be wearing. 🙂
I also heard a few comments (people talking amongst themselves in front of the bake sale) that they wish there had been more furniture. Other than that though the comments sounded good. I also heard people talking who wanted to sell their own stuff. Not sure if that’s feasible, but there was definitely interest. I guess it would be hard to keep it to architecture-related stuff though, and it would just end up being more of a normal flea market.
Amy
11:38, I know zilch about the technical aspects of running a website, but how do you know that Mr. B can see what people’s ip addresses are? If he could see them, I’m sure he’d be banning plenty of them. You’re making claims here about what Mr. B can/cannot do that are unsubstantiated. It’s probably a lot more complicated than you think.
All I can say is, if there really is some sort of racism in play here, people are going to start hating this site for reasons going far beyond any ‘trolls’.
Also, I find it interesting that people always assume that trolls are male. Surely there are tons of female trolls on the internet.
Oh please, Brownstoner went around and took photos once or twice during the day, and caught some white people shopping. Oh, look – black people shopping too! What a non-issue!
Maybe next time, he’ll make it mandatory to take a head shot of everyone who comes in the gate, so we can do a count of how many black people were there, just so some idiot troll will shut up. Maybe we’ll turn into pre-apartheid South Africa. Maybe I’ll tell my fellow black brothers and sisters to rush the gate and skew the numbers in our favor. Then the troll will say that the event discriminates against white people. You just can’t win. This is my last comment on the event, since I’m only feeding a troll who will just keep going, anyway.
It was a fine day for a salvage fest, and the day was enjoyed by all. ‘Nuff said.
I was at Salvagefest briefly and saw a nice, friendly and diverse crowd. The weather was perfect, and I got to check out a really nice neighborhood that I hadn’t before had the opportunity to spend time in. Nice job, Mr.B!
I’m really starting to hate this blog. I’ve always hated most of the regulars here, but tolerated them because there were some good discussions and good content. Now, however, it’s all crap. Every interesting thread is undermined in one way or another. And it really, really bugs me that Mr. B doesn’t just single out some of these people and ban their IP addresses so that they can’t post anymore, ever, anonymously or under any user name!! And I think I’ve finally figured out why he doesn’t. This blog is like Rosie O’Donnell. People hate it, but they hate it so much they can’t keep their eyes off it. Since the troll accounts for people’s hating the site so much, he is therefore too “valuable” to ban.
Sad, if true, but that’s my theory.
Let’s concentrate on giving Brownstoner feedback on the event so it can become a regular thing and the crowd will become more and more diverse with lots of happy customers of all colors of the rainbow walking away with fantastic items and good neighborhood feelings.
I’m not insulted Amy.
BTW, we ALMOST met on Saturday–I saw the people near the popcorn machine. Maybe we should have Brownstoner name tags :-).
I was the old fat bald guy, wearing a Lefferts Manor tee shirt, but I doubt that I was very noticable. I’ll introduce myself at the NEXT salvage fest 🙂
Also, I’ve noticed that my registration works with Safari, but not with Firefox. Have you tried different browsers?