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Article: Shoppers mob RV show at South Towne
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- Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
- Article date:
- February 21, 2009
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SANDY -- The dire warnings of financial experts and politicians
bemoaning the recession were absent Friday afternoon inside a
crowded South Towne Expo Center, as Serious Shoppers and Looky Lous
mingled against a backdrop of simple pop-up trailers and luxury
motor homes.
The annual Utah RV Show, which continues through Sunday, was
doing a brisk business, fueled by shoppers hungry for bargains and
happy that gas prices have dropped over the past year.
"Considering, or dreaming?" a reporter asks Gary Harms of Ogden.
"Shopping," he responds. His family has been planning to replace a
trailer "since before the economy went south," and nothing has
changed except, perhaps, the prices.
They've ...