Quote Originally Posted by greynotsoold View Post
My aunt made pasties for 3 of her daughters weddings, and made, by her count, 10,000 more to build this: Our Lady of the Rockies
She once got irate with me because I said I liked the product from Joe's Pasty Shop. She preferred to make her own. A good friend of mine once quit speaking to me for the same reason; she prefers Nancy's Pasties.
Butte is known as the "festival City" because, during July, we host the Montana Folk Festival, Evel Knieval Days and the AnRiRa Irish Festival. These are all three international events- at least a few people come from abroad, though we'll see over 100,000 extra people here each July. The guythat runs Park Street Pasties runs a booth through all the events and, I've heard, makes upwards of $50,000 that month. I have never had his pasties- Joe's is closer.
That's some impressive fundraising. Great effort by everyone involved to raise that much for the statue.

Yeah I imagine small business owners can make a killing when events like that roll into town. We have an International air show that comes to Sunderland once a year for a weekend in late July. I'd guess that the fish and chip shops along the sea front make a good amount that weekend with all the people that come to it.