Castro Valley Fall Festival - Sep 13-14

CASTRO VALLEY, CA. I have been doing this event for approx 10 years now and this is the worst year ever. I've always enjoyed this event and we have a good location for our booth. The promoters, Festival Productions, once again did a great job with the show and I commend them once again, as they (Jeff & Jerry Cambra) put on another great event.

However, you can lead the horse to the water and stick his nose in it, but you can not make him drink it. And that's the way the story goes. People just not buying. I guess some vendors did okay, but a huge majority had big drops in sales, including us. We just have to ride this decline in the economy out.

We had huge problems with the booth next to us which was the Pellen Martial Arts School, located in Castro Valley. They had some of their 'students' there solicting membership. They absolutely horrendous and you can read about them in another post that I have in this blog.