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The Arlington Guitar Show represents the seventy-third Texas Amigos guitar event. The Amigos have been a part of the guitar show scene since 1978, when John Brinkmann and crews started the Greater Southwest guitar show in a Dallas hotel. In 1984, John, of Waco Vintage in Mansfield, Texas, teamed with Larry Briggs of Strings West (now Oklahoma Guitar Company in Sperry, Tulsa County), Dave Crocker, of Fly-by- Night Music in Neosho, Missouri, and later, Eugene Robertson, of Eugene’s Guitars Plus, in Dallas, to form Texas Guitar Shows, Inc.

Since that time, the 4 Amigos have pioneered almost every innovation in the guitar show business. The fabulous Arlington show remains the world’s largest vintage event, and is considered by many to be the show to attend each year, especially by foreign and VIP buyers.

Available exhibit space in the convention center has increased to 94,000 square feet, making it possible for all qualified buyers to rent exhibit space. Booth sizes have been increased to ten feet by ten feet for the first time in years.

Since more space is available this year, the Amigos are accepting applications from a greater number of major manufacturers, builders and other purveyors of new product.

Arlington Convention Center is only fifteen minutes from DFW Airport, and is adjacent to the elegant Wyndham Arlington Hotel (DFW South), a high rise state-of-the-art facility.

» See pictures from the Arlington Show 2000

News date: 24. October 2002