The free Coffee and Biscuits at Ward's Landing between Pleasant Hill and Wilmore enticed many to stop and shop.
One Vendor near Harrodsburg pulled out a 1940 never restored, original paint and upholstery Ford Deluxe, early Thursday morning and put a for sale sign on it to entice the husbands to stop and allow their wives to shop while they checked out the car. By 10:00 a.m. the same morning the car had sold for $15,000.
The antique shops that seemed to be the busiest were those who opened early and those that had sidewalk sales or allowed yard sale folks to set up next door or in front of their shops.
"Wow! We had a very good end ot the week. Thursday was our best day and the other three days were way above what we usually do. What helped me and the others that did it was setting up tables in front of the mall loaded with bargins. They would stop to check the tables out then say, Oh! a mall and in they came."
- Miz Malva's Antique Mall in Cadiz, Kentucky.
By far, the best advertising for this event was newspapers! Even more so than word-of-mouth. 46% of the people who filled out a survey read an article in their local paper.
  • Best Newspapers:
  • The Paducah Sun! They carried articles nearly every time we sent out a press release (which was about every two weeks for the last three months.) Because of the Paducah Sun, more newspapers from all over the United States promoted our event. A complete list of the papers we know that carried articles and other media sources are listed on the statistics page. Thank You to each and every one!

    • The Mayfield Messenger gets the credit for being the first to run an article and then we hardly heard from them after that.

More people said that they read about it in the Russellville News Democrat & Leader than the Park City Daily News, the Lexington Herald and the Courier Journal. Maybe that was why the community of Auburn was so prepared for their guests.

  • Magazine Most Mentioned:
The antique magazine most mentioned was the Antique Weekly who ran a wonderful article a few weeks before the event.
The Busy Bee Trader also generated a lot of phone calls and email traffic prior to the event.
  • Best Radio and TV Coverage:
TV Coverage:

Channel 6 out of Paducah (WPSD)

Radio Stations:

1560 AM Paducah, 106.5, 93.3, 99.1, WKNK, WRUS, WHOP, WKDZ and 590 WVIK.
Bluegrass Festival in Aurora, Logan County Antique Engine & Tractor Show in Auburn (see left), the Civil War Reenactment at Jefferson Davis State Park in Fairview, the Community Days Festival in Smiths Grove, the Glasgow Highland Games, the 11th Annual Roots and Heritage Festival in Harrodsburg and the Pleasant Hill Antique Show and Sale at Shaker Village to name a few.

Many people shopped Thursday - Saturday and spent Saturday evening and Sunday at the events, most of which were only held over the weekend.

Next year we will survey to determine:
  • Best Special Event
  • Best Vendors
  • Best Unique Dining (chain restaurants not included)
  • Most Popular Places to Stay
  • Best Locations to Set Up a Booth

We will be asking your opinion, so let us know.
Thank you to the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet and the Kentucky Tourism/Transportation Committee for allowing us to put up the 400 Mile signs.
A special thanks to the Transportation Cabinet Districts #7 and #9 who provided the flashing yellow sign boards at eight locations along the route.

"The signs you all put out marking the road worked great!" - Art & Antique Gallery, Glasgow.
Lodging facilities and communities who stepped forward and provided rooms for our surveyors at no cost:

- Holiday Inn, Draffenville
- Holiday Inn, Cadiz
- Days Inn in Murray
- Grand Rivers Inn in Grand Rivers
- Comfort Suites in Paducah
- Country Charm in Paris, a charming historic farmhouse
B & B (circa 1869)
- Lakeview Motel, Campbellsville
- One family even opened up their Lexington home so one of our surveyors would have a place to stay!

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