View Full Version : does your city have swap meets?


Soulbrotha
March 4th, 2006, 07:15 AM
I know West Louisville has them. What about in your city?

bay_area
March 4th, 2006, 08:57 AM
Oakland
1. Laney College Parking Lot(Sat/Sun)..mainly peoples junk from their house..I got this nice sterling silver tea service from there once for 20 bucks; turns out its worth 3 thousand dollars(hooray)..gave it to my mom.

2. Coliseum Drive In(3-5 days a week)..mainly designer knock offs, apparel, household items, tools, stereos, pirated and legal music and movies, excellent produce, etc...

3. Durant Square(Indoor)(7 days a week)Once an abandoned warehouse, now a shopping arcade that has low quality jewelry, street clothes, designer knock offs, cell phones, stereos, pirated and legal music and movies, shoes, household items, furniture, etc.(there are now condos and lofts immediately adjacent to Durant Square...very interesting hood development(Condos sold for about 400K 2 years ago)

4. AC "Mall"(Indoor)(7 days a week)...pretty much the same as Durant-only a lot smaller

5. Ashby BART Station Parking Lot(Sat/Sun)(this ones in Berkeley)Pretty much the same as Laney, but some relics from hippiedom too.

There are some smaller ones, but these are the most noteworthy IMO.

ReggieZ
March 4th, 2006, 06:49 PM
Yeah, but in the Houston area they are called a "Flea Markets"

In the Dallas area they call them "Bizarres"

pwright1
March 4th, 2006, 09:16 PM
Never heard of swap meets till I moved out here to Seattle.

Xusein
March 4th, 2006, 09:58 PM
There's some in Hartford, but we call them Flea Markets also.

illmatic774
March 4th, 2006, 11:53 PM
Las Vegas has butt loads. All up north in the inner city areas though.

waj0527
March 9th, 2006, 09:09 PM
Yes, but In the Baltimore-Washington area they're known as flea markets.

NovaWolverine
March 9th, 2006, 11:44 PM
Yeah DC has flea markets, so does Queens.

TalB
March 11th, 2006, 04:58 AM
Manhattan is known to have lots durring the summer that have flea markets.

Cali4nia
March 11th, 2006, 06:01 AM
They have a large one in an old drive in movie theater. Also a small one near a train station in Solana Beach sometimes. So yes I suppose.

sequoias
March 11th, 2006, 09:31 AM
I've heard of swap meets, but haven't been to one. There's a few here in Seattle metro area.