Opening Day at the Republican National Convention in the Xcel Center

Opening Day at the Republican National Convention in the Xcel Center

September 1, 2008 photos by Kevin Dayhoff

On Monday, September 1, 2008, at the Republican National Convention at the Xcel Center in Minneapolis St. Paul in Minnesota, security was tight – but nevertheless, smooth and efficient – getting into the convention…

Once you got inside the Republican National Convention at Xcel Convention Center it was obvious that there 45,000 folks there. It was a veritable beehive of constant activity to the tune of the constant drone of talking…

Inside the convention center - as folks lurched from one stage of exhaustion to another, one of the more popular concessions, just to the inside of one of the main entrances at the beginning of radio row, was the coffee stand.

20080901 Opening Day at the RNC Xcel Convention Center