However, by then sales had slipped from their previous levels to 55,164.
Sales slipped to 13,350 this year at a base price of $6,366.
Sales for this year's first quarter slipped 34 percent, to $68 million.
Sales slipped in 2001 to $456 million, 6 percent of the mattress industry.
Quarterly sales slipped about 4 percent, to $3.03 billion in 1999.
But of late the show's sales have slipped; last week the gross was $600,240.
The show had broken even or better most weeks, but sales have slipped lately.
And there was an old sales slip, dated March 24.
Sales of existing houses slipped 1.2 percent in May, a real estate trade group reported today.
But its sales slipped, and it was discontinued in 1997.