Your Ultimate Adventure to Yesteryear
You do not need a printed invitation to attend what is quickly becoming the “destination” convention of the year. (I’m quoting Terry Salomonson, who uses that word loosely, but has attended more than 30 different conventions repeatedly over the past five years to be qualified enough to compare them all.) The seventh annual Mid-Atlantic Nostalgia [...]
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Below are photos submitted to us from attendees at the 2012 Mid-Atlantic Nostalgia Covention. Many thanks to Steve and Maxine Wrzesien, Jim McCuaig, Tara Kahnert,William Rigler, Bill Parisho, Lisa Birt, Vinny Foti, Martin Aaron Totten, Al Stone, Mark J. Gross and Gordon Shriver. Make sure you visit our 2012 Convention Recap Page! CLICK HERE [...]
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by Mark J. Gross. The incredible classic and unique Mid Atlantic Nostalgia Convention, or MANC as it is called, landed back in Baltimore for 2011, and what a show it was indeed! However, you are not allowed to call it MANC, unless you have attended! The entire volunteer staff have a passion to take our [...]
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The 2010 Convention was a smash! Largest crowd ever! We broke attendance records! HIGHLIGHTS Attendees were treated to a rare screening of HOUSE OF WAX (1953) with Vincent Price in 3D format. Glasses were provided and you can only imagine how the paddle ball sequence rocked! Hollywood legend Marsha Hunt attended a screening of THUNDER [...]
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If you missed the 2009 Convention, we offer a recap with photographs. Our fourth event was also the last year we had the event in Aberdeen, Maryland. After four years, we discovered we had out-grown the hotel because of crowd growth. We had to re-direct the autograph lines twice in Aberdeen, and two of the [...]
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Every year we break attendance records and 2008 was no exception. The largest crowd we had and yes, we broke that again in 2009. People has difficult getting through the aisles because of the attendance, but thankfully that has been taken care of since we moved to Hunt Valley. Aberdeen had everything you could ever [...]
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2007 was our second convention. Still considered the early stages, anyone who was there can look back today and see how far we have come. Four years after the 2007 event, our attendance tripled in size, as well as the number of vendors. We offered a wide variety of pop culture celebrities from Virginia Davis, [...]
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Our first year was a learning experience. Encouraged by friends to put on an event in Maryland, we signed an agreement with a hotel in Aberdeen, placed a number of phone calls and e-mails to celebrities and then had thousands of flyers printed. The result was a large, encouraging crowd that suggested we might have [...]
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