Southern California Sunday Stamp Show Schedule 2023

This thread was originally titled Orco Expo: Anaheim California: 6-8 January 2023, and it has been repurposed on 10-Jan-2023 to post the schedule for all of 2023, and it will be a location where members who attend the shows can post photos or comments.

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I recently received a notice in the mail for this upcoming show, so wanted to alert TSF members in case of potential interest:

Orco Expo Stamp Show
Brookhurst Community Center
2271 Crescent Avenue
Anaheim, California 92801

Dates and Times:

• Fri-06-Jan from 10am-6pm
• Sat-07-Jan from 12pm-7pm
  
• Sun-08-Jan from 10am-4pm

Organizer's website: www.stampshowsteve.com

I am thinking seriously about attending, and I would be delighted to meet up with any other TSF members who would be interested.

I'll be there. The stupidest thing with this bourse is they are advertising "free if you sign up!" I contacted Dave and apparently, the only place to sign up is at the show itself. What is the point of that, exactly? It's another case of someone living in the 80s, refusing to move into the Internet age.

First Day at Orco Expo
Anaheim, California

It was a dry, sunny day in Southern California today, so not bad for driving out to Anaheim, which is about 30 miles (48km) from where I now live.  It has been pouring rain for the past couple of days, so it was great to have a break from that for being on the road.  The show opened at 10:00 PST, and I arrived a little after 10:30.  As it happened, Dave (Philatarium ) had just arrived shortly before that, so we were able to meet up relatively easily.

Orco Expo isn't a huge show, but there are about 20 dealers, and the floor of the bourse was quite active today.  I saw several dealers whom I have dealt with in the past, especially some who also attend Westpex, which happens in the SF Bay Area.  Below are a couple of photos that I took from the entrance to the show, one taken in each direction.  It was a good first day, and I am planning to go back again tomorrow, as one of the dealers has promised to bring some additional stock for me to see.

We went a little overboard at the show but it's always better, IMO, to see the stamps in person before you buy than to keep your fingers crossed with stuff online. It's really too bad that shows are going away, even though Steve tries to keep them going as best he can. They had a Grenada souvenir sheet overprinted with the Orcoexpo information and clearly they didn't sell much on Friday because Saturday, they were just giving them away. I thought it was a little weird not to have an official post office presence, although Steve only had about 2 months to put the whole thing together and maybe it was a scheduling conflict. Still, when we were at SESCAL, they had the post office there and I never saw anyone go over. Maybe it's because all modern stamps suck?

I'm not. I stopped collecting U.S. issues in 1993 so I didn't have to deal with self-adhesives and the modern boom of Photoshop stamps. Nobody is forced to buy anything they don't want to buy.