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#1 eshorer

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Posted 23 March 2008 - 01:34 PM

Attached is the paper I presented on Mar. 20, 2008, at the National Association of Popular Culture/American Culture Convention in San Francisco, entitled: "Round and Round Again: Slot Car Racers Still at it After 40 Years."

It is largely anecdotal, and includes info I received from answers to my questionnaire, personal interviews, and posts from Slotblog. I'm attaching the accompanying PowerPoint in another post. Much appreciation to all who assisted with information. Enjoy.

Attached File  Round_and_Round.ms.doc   80.5KB   273 downloads
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Posted 23 March 2008 - 02:15 PM

My accompanying PowerPoint is 5.1 MB, and the Slotblog limit on files to upload is 1.95 MB. If anyone has a "fix" for me to compress my PowerPoint file, please email me offlist to: ed@shorer.com
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I'll get it uploaded as soon as I am able.
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Posted 23 March 2008 - 03:45 PM

Eddie,

A very well researched and written presentation, and of course very interesting. Was there much interest in and/or discussion of the topic at the convention?

Thanks for putting this paper together and for sharing it with us. :)
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Posted 23 March 2008 - 04:11 PM

I second Roger U's comments, Eddie!

That was very well put and thank you for sharing.

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Posted 23 March 2008 - 09:01 PM

Ed, nice report that makes great reading! I'm keeping a hard copy of it for future use. Thanks! :)
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#6 Dennis David

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Posted 02 February 2016 - 05:15 PM

Wonderful article, accurate and descriptive by someone that knows his subject matter.

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Posted 02 February 2016 - 09:07 PM

Can you print your PowerPoint file to a PDF?

 

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Posted 02 February 2016 - 09:22 PM

Yes, a PDF would be nice.


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Posted 02 February 2016 - 11:01 PM

My accompanying PowerPoint is 5.1 MB, and the Slotblog limit on files to upload is 1.95 MB. If anyone has a "fix" for me to compress my PowerPoint file, please email me offlist to: ed@shorer.com
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I'll get it uploaded as soon as I am able.

 

If you send it to me (PM if interested), I can probably compress the file. And if that won't take it under 1.95 Mb, I can split it into smaller segments that will fall under the size limits.


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#10 Keith Tanaka

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Posted 03 February 2016 - 12:09 AM

Here's Eddie's powerpoint presentation which I added to my Phanfare website back in 2008:  http://socald3.phanf...mageID=23447165

 

 

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Posted 03 February 2016 - 08:46 AM

Attached is the paper I presented on Mar. 20, 2008, at the National Association of Popular Culture/American Culture Convention in San Francisco, entitled: "Round and Round Again: Slot Car Racers Still at it After 40 Years."

It is largely anecdotal, and includes info I received from answers to my questionnaire, personal interviews, and posts from Slotblog. I'm attaching the accompanying PowerPoint in another post. Much appreciation to all who assisted with information. Enjoy.

attachicon.gifRound_and_Round.ms.doc


Loved the paper.

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