Trip to Fanimation and FanFair

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As many of you know, my wife, daughter, and I took a trip to Indianapolis to bring some ceiling fans to the Fan Museum, and visit Fanimation and the AFCA's annual FanFair

I didnt get nearly as many pictures as I would have liked, my phone was dead half the time, and I was busy. My wife took a lot of these.

Also, there are a ton more I didnt post here in the Facebook group so check those out!

First, I spotted this cool old hardware store:






Next stop was the Antique Fan Museum.



Here are pictures of some of my favorites:









Next stop was Fanimation, adjacent to the museum:



They had a lot of really cool stuff in the lobby:










And also in the warehouse:









There were tons of other equally cool areas I did not manage to get pics of.

My wife made off with this Fanimation hand fan:



Tom Frampton gave my daughter a gift, which we opened today:



Lastly, here is the infamous Vincent del Pizzo bidding on a Casablanca Stealth:

[fancollector12]

I'll have the picture we took together up soon!

[fancollector12]

BTW it was nice Tom Frampton gave your daughter the Urbanjet! I love my Urbanjet!

[Deleted]

Tom is the nicest guy ever! Did he give you one too?

[fancollector12]

Yeah, last year, me and a bunch of other members.

[Deleted]

Nice! What color is yours? My wife wants a silver one!

[fancollector12]

I have a black fan like your daughter's fan.

[fan1968]

Jul 22, 2014 13:55:44 GMT -5 fancollector12 said:

I have a black fan like your daughter's fan.

It's not black it's blue of you've seen the video.

[Jean Lemieux]

I didn't thought about looking earlier on Google but I just realized that the fan museum have inside views. The pictures are actually from April 2013. It's a little bit smaller than I expected. The collection has a great majority of US fans. I though it was more international.

For the ceiling fans, the ones on picture 2 and 3 are also my favorite. Those stencil blades are awesome. I didn't know they were stencil blades at that time. Unless they are not original.

It's cool, that you got to see the Fanimation warehouse.

[Deleted]

I got to see the offices, R&D room, etc, but didnt have a chance to take pictures.

There are plenty of fans from around the world. Tom travels the entire globe buying fans. However it is proportionate to what exists. There are a LOT more antique US fans than other countries.

[organistjx]

Remind me... who is Vincent del Pizzo?

[organistjx]

And did you get any pictures of the fan auction? What was there?

[fancollector12]

Aug 2, 2014 18:27:25 GMT -5 organistjx said:

Remind me... who is Vincent del Pizzo?

A member of the forums, as described.