Wow! That was close! 15 years at IAAPA! For the first 10 years we had a booth inside on the tradeshow floor, featuring our Matrix Marquees and Tentnology Mega tent. Since these tents can free-stand, they are perfect for use in areas where anchorage to ground is not possible.

I always wanted to play trumpet, ever since I heard Wonderland by Night on my father's Blaupunkt radio while he drove home ward on that long snowy highway north. A few days later I stood mesmerized at a little music shop window, staring down at the most beautiful thing I had ever seen. The shop was a few steps south of Dad's TV repair business on Main Street. He had bought the old building some years earlier; had a tenant and her family, Mrs. Waugh, on the second floor. So, with hard earned honest dollars from fixing folks' electronic stuff, Dad scratched out a living to support our family of seven kids, Momma and Great Aunt Nell, a real life nanny.

Sadly, a long-time Tentnology client, Seth Fellner, founder of Silver-Stage was involved in August in an auto accident that took his life. Seth was quite an innovator throughout his career in the UK and Europe. He had a truly creative mind in a world that needs more. We will miss Seth in many ways.

Tentnology innovates. It’s what we do. We hope that our work makes a difference in the world, and sometimes it does. We are happy when we look around the landscape with surprise and delight at the ingenuity of our clients in just how they use Tentnology structures; and their usefulness in helping people do some things they just couldn’t do before. After all, companies that make tents are quite common. The barrier to entry is low; lift a rock; find a tentmaker. Not to be unkind to the industry, but in our opinion, we in the industry are a dime a dozen. So then, what differentiates one from another? What separates the men from the boys; originators from tiresome copiers?

Tentnology SaddleSpan fabric structures have graced events around the world for the last 25 years in over 36 countries!