The show often drew crowds of 150,000.Kenny King, the longtime owner and promoter of Arizona’s annual Quartzsite Sports, Vacation & RV Show, has died after a battle with leukemia. “It is with a heavy heart that I share that my dad passed away peacefully in the comfort of his home surrounded by friends and family,” his daughter Kimmy said in an announcement.
A year before he died, after his leukemia diagnosis, King wrote a letter to the Quartzsite community. In it he traced the history of his show, which has run now for 37 years. Here is what he wrote:
“I came to Quartzsite in 1973 selling RV awnings at a small show on the east end of town named Cloud’s Jamboree. John and Dick Cloud ran the operation for the family and I was one of several hundred vendors. We did so good that first year that we paid extra to get a better location directly on the road coming in from B-10 (Main Street) and added more products. Business got better accordingly.”
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