[tazz]

Originally Posted by airics

In Ohio, we have tons of festivals (church, etc) and carnivals with rides, decent food like fried dough, etc.. Is this something that happens in Vegas also?

Fried dough = decent food? HEHEHEHE

[airics]

Originally Posted by aqualung8705

There's also a Church sponsored Italian festival.

this is the type of event i am looking for.. on the side, i airbrush (sorry aqua) tattoos, mostly for children.. Example last week, did about 500 kids at a local carnival... had a booth...

[airics]

Originally Posted by Positiveone

I say the Greek Festival is the best in town!!

Link --Las Vegas Greek Festival

holy smokes!!! $1400-$1800 for a vendor table is insane!

[aqualung8705]

You've never worked for Greeks.

Tell them that your name is Zorba Ozanyuz, and maybe they'll give you a break.

[yukiko11]

Originally Posted by airics

holy smokes!!! $1400-$1800 for a vendor table is insane!

Not in Las Vegas! That last time I did a fair on a 3 day weekend, we worked 2 days, sold out and gave our booth to the jewelry people next to us.
We paid $800 for our two 10 x 10 spaces in the convention center. and made 4000 plus were given $1000 worth of jewelry by the people we gave our space to when we sold out. The cost of our materials was about 15% of what we made.
That was in 1978!
There ia a lot of money to be made on the fair circuit if you have the right product at the right price.
I have kept up with trends and I plan to come back to augment my social security when I retire.

[Buzz123]

I've run into people selling food at the San Gennerro Feast from restaurants in New York. They came all this way because they can make so much money. Christmas trees is another thing. People come all the way from Wyoming and Montana to sell trees and make a bundle of money.

[yukiko11]

Originally Posted by Buzz123

I've run into people selling food at the San Gennerro Feast from restaurants in New York. They came all this way because they can make so much money. Christmas trees is another thing. People come all the way from Wyoming and Montana to sell trees and make a bundle of money.

The only problem with food is that you have to have a ton of insurance and licenses in the area you want to sell and you usually have to pay about 35-40% of your gross receipts to the venue. That is why a hot dog costs about $4.00. I live in WA and have a friend who owns a 26 acre christmas tree farm. He and his family make almost a whole years income between thanksgiving and christmas. However, it is a lot of work to maintain the trees. Most don't grow naturally in that nice shape and have to be trimmed. They also make about 2000 wreaths out of the tree trimmings that sell in local stores. I live next to the Tulalip Tribes Indian reservation where many families make a whole years income selling fireworks for the 4th of July. There are about 250 vendors at Boom Town who work about 2 weeks selling. Unfortunately, after many accidents, the reservation police have put a lid on the really big ones which equal about a 1/4 stick of dynamite, but they are far better than the ones that the local boyscouts sell. People here are very serious about the 4th of July and think nothing about spending $1000 or more for their fireworks. I am lucky, I live in a lake community and can watch everyone else from my front porch. LOL
The highest earnings I ever ran into was when I worked at the Dade County Fair in Miami FLA. Every morning, the school children were allowed in free and came from all over the area on school field trips to the fair. One of the booths was a spin art booth. However, they called it European Spin Art, because they used an automatic paint drying fluid and had picture sizes from 5 x 7 throuth 10 x 15. We all had to give a portion of our proceeds to the venue. Someone I had made friends who worked with the fair management with told me that in the 10 days of the fair they made $125,000. WOW We only made about $7,000 and thought we were doing Ok

[Buzz123]

Rainbow Library has movies and music all summer on Friday nights for free in the outdoor amphitheater. Tonight we saw Killian's Angels, an (almost) all female Irish band (tonight they had one guy as a guest). They're pretty good. You can see them at Brendan's Irish Pub every other weekend. Killian's Angels - Welcome!!!

The other libraries have similar programs too. We like it when they have the story tellers.

[evilghost]

like some people said the san gennaro feast which was last month.....I guess they dont know about the clark county fair in April(located in Logandale) which is a 35-40 minute ride on I15 north and there is the Harvest festival in September in Pahrump.Otherwise look for small carnivals on the sides of the freeway set up in parking lots or dirt lots.

[Buzz123]

Originally Posted by evilghost

like some people said the San Genaro feast which was last month.....I guess they don't know about the Clark county fair in April(located in Logandale) which is a 35-40 minute ride on I15 north and there is the Harvest festival in September in Pahrump.Otherwise look for small carnivals on the sides of the freeway set up in parking lots or dirt lots.

Is Pahrump still having the Harvest Festival. Used to be they were farmers down there and it meant something. Not a lot of farms there now like there used to be. Even the old cotton mill has been replaced by a casino.