The January Rose Bowl was the first one Nanette McGoyne of All Categories Collectibles has ever set up at; however, she looked like an old pro. All of her fossils, fetish necklaces and Native American weavings were neatly displayed. She claims it only took her and her husband an hour to set up. She later revealed it was only her first Rose Bowl, not her first flea market. She is a regular at Coby’s in San Diego.
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Canning offers $300 season pass
For those loyal Rose Bowl shoppers, R.G. Canning is now offering a $300 season passes which grants early admission to all shows for one year. Not only do these diehards get to skip the line, they get in at the same time as the vendors. This breaks down to $25 a show and is a great idea for the hot summer months. Shoppers can get the best early morning deals and avoid the blazing afternoon sun. Tickets may only be purchased by mail. Send checks (with name of pass user clearly printed) to: Canning Attractions, Canning Enterprises, Inc. Season Tickets, P.O. Box 400, Maywood, CA 90270.
E-Flea Connection date takes place at Rose Bowl
Raul Gonzales, surveyor and fledgling Japanese woodblock collector, met the lovely lady he brought to the April Rose Bowl through E-Flea Connection.com, where every date takes place at a flea market. The website matches up potential dates based on 69 points of compatibility. Who needs $37 lobster dinners, $25 bottle of wine, overpriced appetizers, snooty waiters and snotty valets? Besides, science shows that 96% of dates don’t work out, so why spend a fortune? For $8 admission and a $3 hot dog (they went dutch), Gonzales and his date enjoyed a sunny Easter Sunday sauntering hand in hand down the avenues and boulevards of the Rose Bowl. This way, if all he gets at the end of the date is a peck on the cheek, all he had to put out was a foot long. Gonzales was hunting for Japanese woodblock prints. He admits he is still learning how to decipher between originals and reproductions. He recently found one that matches his Arts & Crafts fumed oak furniture at an antique store on Newport Avenue in Ocean Beach. For more information, Gonzales can be contacted at rgomb63@verizon.net.
donna karan bought 100 beaded fruits at $50 a piece
Ben Mann ushered in spring at the March Rose Bowl with a heaping basket of 1960s beaded “kit” fruit, a personal favorite of clothing designer Donna Karan. ”They used to sell them in kits,” explained Mann. The box came with fruit-shaped styrofoam and colorful bead-topped nails that would be pushed into the styrofoam. This type of simple, yet time-consuming craft was typical of the 1960s “craft kit” era. ”This would go with your Danish Modern furniture to offset the dark brown,” said Mann. The banana with sequins is one of the more unusual of Mann’s fruit offerings. He hoped his remaining 50 pieces of fruit would ripen for $125. When he first acquired the fruit 15 years ago, he sold 100 pieces to Donna Karan. ”She bought them from me at Stella’s Piers Show in New York,” he said. “She paid $50 a piece after haggling me down 50%.”
First time at the Rose Bowl
March’s Hot Chick finally got the weekend right, and made her first appearance at the Rose Bowl Flea Market in March. She buy 1940s and ’50s dresses to add to her own vintage closet, but she also buys clothing professionally. She is a buyer for clothing boutique in Orange County. ”It’s miserable having to buy clothing with other people’s money,” she joked. It is an enjoyable job, she said, but she admits it is hard not to to buy “just what you like.”
Stakes out South Bay with name change
Darryl Fischer has renamed his new 4th Sunday Show held in Torrance. This is to be expected, because it was unlikely the generic “4th Sunday” title would last very long. He has now decided upon the South Bay Antique Market, which also suggests his new territory. His show is held at 3400 Manhattan Beach Blvd. near Alondra Park in Torrance, but by claiming the title of South Bay, his territory reaches as far north as Santa Monica, as far south as Palos Verdes, and as far east as the 605 freeway. The name change will also help reduce any potential conflicts between Darryl’s Show and Julie Randall’s Torrance Antique Street Faire. In fact, the fourth Sunday shows have been working together to get shoppers to make the rounds. A cooperative network exists between the outdoor shows in general, as evidenced by a transaction that started at Darryl’s Show and was completed at the Long Beach Show. A shopper took an interest in Randy Schoonover’s Art Deco figural plane clock at the South Bay Show, and the shopper paid for and picked up the flighty ticker at the Long Beach Antique Market a few weeks later. Schoonover got $1,000 for the plane. Flyers are particularly hot these days with all the news of crashing planes, heroic pilots, icy wings, and collisions with birds. When Fischer produced the Northridge Show, he was the pre-eminent show in the San Fernando Valley, with his customers and dealers coming from Burbank in the east, Thousand Oaks in the west, and Simi Valley to the north.
Moger says Long Beach Gate is up
They started their show in a recession in 1982, and even though the United States is in a recession again, the Long Beach Antique Market has had a very successful last few months, according to producer Donald Moger.”With the exception of the month of the big fires, when it was hard to breath, the gate has been up,” said Moger, who is grateful that the outdoor shows are still attracting shoppers despite the hard economic times. He attributes the show’s success to it being a relatively inexpensive form of entertainment ($5 for up to six hours of shopping). Moger also believes that the Long Beach Antique Market is the perfect venue to furnish a house, or find the occasional knick knack, for a lot less than shopping at a retail mall or furniture store.
