Yesterday, breezing through the Coliseum lobby, Mr. Lester passed display booths taking shape for today's opening.
The 60,000-square-foot room, which has 20-foot ceilings and a cement floor, will be able to accommodate up to 450 display booths measuring 8 feet by 10 feet.
Many of Thomas Edison's companies had display booths at the exhibition.
Pharmacies and individuals had been paying $150 to $750 to be listed in the academy's directory and $3,695 to $22,000 to buy display booths at its conventions.
Most of the chambers had been utilized by exclusive retail outlets as display booths for their inordinately expensive designer clothes and products.
Behind the first officer, the carefully planned display booths lay in ruins--shattered, torn, and strewn with abandon over Ten Forward's entire surface.
People throughout the exhibition hall were jammed together, standing shoulder-to-shoulder at many of the display booths.
Carnets are regularly used to facilitate movement of everything from display booths to racing yachts.
He was a fashion designer with no name recognition, no track record and not even enough money for a display booth.
It also gets its message out at a display booth on Pier 39 in San Francisco, where thousands of tourists stroll.