BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID;X-RICAL-TZSOURCE=TZINFO:-//com.denhaven2/NONSGML ri_cal gem//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN VERSION:2.0 BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:Winter weather elsewhere may be frightful\, but in Florida it can be so delightful\, especially when enjoying an antiques and collect ibles show highlighting vintage Christmas dé\;cor and memorabilia!  \; The &ldquo\;Christmas Collecto-Rama&hellip\;A Santa-Comes-to-the -South Holiday Antique Show&rdquo\; is the Sunshine State&rsquo\;s ONLY show featuring dealers selling oodles of vintage holiday dé\;cor\, Christmas postcards and other fun ephemera\, vintage Christmas linens a nd tableware\, old toys and games\, and other retro Christmas fun\, plus lectures and oldie holiday flicks\, with a cash bar and retro tunes thr oughout the day to help keep everyone in a jolly mood. \; Fa la la l a la! \; So start singing &ldquo\;Let it snow\, let it snow\, let it snow&hellip\;&rdquo\; It won&rsquo\;t do much good for we Floridians\, but it&rsquo\;ll help put us in the holiday mood. \; Then again\, wh o says you need snow when you have this vintage holiday show?!\nSpecial Features: \n● \; Exhibitors selling everything from vintage Christ mas ornaments\, dé\;cor and ephemera to old aluminum trees and can dy containers\, even electric light-up Yule logs\, as well as vintage ga mes and toys from Christmases of long ago! Look for old Santas\, angels\ , elves and ornaments galore\, as well as rare German glass ornaments (p re-1946)\, Heinrichsen early German led flats\, Russian/Polish/West Germ any ornaments\, 1940s/50s bottle brush trees\, \;Japanese and German gnomes and houses\, candy containers\, German and Japan snowbabies\, Dr esden and Victorian ornaments\, old package decor and ephemera and much\ , much more!\n● \; Take a break from your holiday shopping and enj oy a lecture and slide presentation in the Hickman&rsquo\;s state-of-the -art 178-seat theater on &ldquo\;Collecting Christmas&rdquo\; by Cory Ad ams\, a long-time collector and member of The Golden Glow of Christmas P ast club.  \;Mr. Adams has been an avid collector of vintage Christm as for over a decade. \; His personal collection consists of over tw o hundred figural glass ornaments dating before World War I\, over five hundred Shiny Brite ornaments\, many silver aluminum trees\, plastic nov elties and over fifty glass fair lights. \; His presentation during the Christmas Collecto-Rama will include the beginnings of Christmas col lecting\, which ornaments should YOU collect\, and how to determine repr oduction items that are sometimes mistaken for vintage.\n● \; Anot her special feature will be a presentation on &ldquo\;Antique Mechanical Toys for Christmas&rdquo\; by Dr. Gary Moss\, an avid collector-dealer of antique toys and mechanical banks for nearly 40 years. Dr. Moss also will be exhibiting and selling from his personal collection of toys. Dr. Gary L. Moss\, OD\, MBA was an associate professor at The New England C ollege of Optometry in Boston\, MA for nearly 30 years before retiring t o Florida. He has been an active antiques dealer-collector since 1974\, currently exhibiting at over a dozen shows a year in PA\, MA &\; FL. He is the former owner of Kenmore Cards\, a sports memorabilia store 2 b locks from Fenway Park in Boston. His book\, Hippie Artifacts\, was publ ished in 2003 by Schiffer Publishing. His 300 plus 1930-40&rsquo\;s vint age Hawaiian shirt collection was on exhibit in 2004 at the American Tex tile History Museum in Lowell\, MA for 6 months and is the subject of th e book Hawaiian Shirts: Dress for Paradise.  \;\n● \;Two vinta ge Christmas flicks will be shown\, &ldquo\;Santa Conquers the Martians& rdquo\; and the 1935 British version of &ldquo\;Scrooge&rdquo\; and a DJ will spin holiday tunes throughout the day! \;\nSchedule:\n10:00 &n dash\; 5:00: Exhibitors selling vintage holiday dé\;cor and memora bilia\, plus old games and toys of Christmases past\n10:30: Screening of Santa Conquers the Martians\n12:00: Collecting Christmas presentation\n 1:30: Antique Mechanical Toys for Christmas presentation\n3:00: Screenin g of Scrooge\nAdmission: $5.00 all ages includes lectures and movie\; FR EE on-street parking.  \;\nInformation: \;For information\, visi t http://www.hulahula.biz or email hulahula@tampabay.rr.com\n \;\n&n bsp\; URL:http://dunedin.patch.com/events/christmas-collecto-ramaa-santa-comes- to-the-south-holiday-antique-show SUMMARY:Christmas Collecto-Rama...a Santa-Comes-to-the-South Holiday Anti que Show LOCATION:Hickman Catherine A Theater of Gulfport: 5501 27th Ave S\, Gulfp ort\, FL END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR