St. Joseph Civic Arena — Attraction in Saint Joseph

Disappointed. Drove 2 hours for the "antique" show & stayed maybe 20 minutes, so definitely not worth a $9 admission. 1st thing at the bottom of the ramp, was a huge display of rocks/geodes (not antiques). I then walk around the corner & see KC apparel & rain gutter products. Again, not antiques. There were tables of antiques, but for an arena & cost, not that many in my opinion.

The outer end of the arena was more rocks/geodes and gold/treasure hunting items, like metal detectors and sluicing items. Altho these items are intriguing in their own right, once again, definitely not antiques. So was very disappointing to have spent that much time & money for such a small selection of...

Nice facility older but was clean. Well air conditioned so nice and cool. Went to Cryptocon there and little one she had a blast. Only issue I had was on 2nd floor every bathroom and fire exit stunk of Weed. Folks smoking pot right in building. 2 cops on 2nd floor did nothing. If I had smoked a cigarette oh god they would have been on me. Parking ramp right across the street was convenient. Lots of homeless in this town and they were hanging around. And it appeared there was a methadone clinic a block away with a huge line every morning. People yelling and fighting outside so avoid that area. One gal threw something at our car when we were...

There are a couple of entrances on the side of the building. One is uphill, the other downhill. It always seems they only open one for an event. They aren't labeled as such, and I inevitably go to the wrong one and have to do a lot of extra walking to get around to the other. They could easily put a sign in advance of the closed entrance to save the extra uphill/downhill trek, but they don't. Open both, or put signs up so that people aren't walking all the way just to pull on locked doors. These entrance doors connect in a hall about 40' apart but it is an uphill/downhill trek of 100 yards to get from one set of doors...