Just too many events running that month and too few customers. I so hoped it wouldn't be, but I had a gut feeling this would be the last opportunity to shoot the EBT in winter. It took quite a bit of convincing to get Stanley Hall to agree to run in the winter. The EBT had stopped the Winter Spectaculars years before because the cold was so hard on the equipment and the people. No heat in any of the buildings and risking freeze damage in case everything wasn't drained properly. Interesting that ad is still archived someplace. The photo is mine from a Winter Spectacular back in the 70's.