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I go to Trade Day every Tuesday. It's like a third world market. There's no telling what they will haul in to sell today. I'm hoping for a tall step ladder cause I'm driving my truck to town, but there's no guarantee I'll find one. I scored last week. I've been looking for some earmuffs, and bingo... a trader had just the ones I like. I bought two pair for $5. So every now and then you'll find something you're looking for, but most of the time it is pure discovery. The trick with Trade Day (for me) is to only buy things you need or will use... just because it is a bargain isn't a reason.
Lot of dealers come there to shop for items for their various stores. People tend to shop for certain things. There's a record dealer there buying most of the time. Used to be I could find old 78's for a friend who collects them, but it's pretty much old 33.3 or 45's these days. You still see things like horse hames and collars, and even an occasional oxen yoke. Lot's of tools, produce, and chickens, goats, rabbits and such. The bottom line there's no telling what you'll see.
Here's a few of shots before it was moved just across RR tracks. You can see the train cars on the left in the first shot.
The other thing about it is the community gathering...walking around and visiting with shoppers and traders. It is where I get to see my buddies and catch up on the local happenings.
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Thanks for stepping up LO
Good luck with your trade day scrounging.
Maybe you can find the fixin's for one of these?
some really whacky instruments
https://kenbutler.squarespace.com/hybrid-instruments/
question everything
Hey I got the stuff to make that now...
but I wouldn't know what to do with it.
Hope you're having a great day!
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
Interesting, but I doubt I could
get the hang of it.
"The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. Now do you begin to understand me?" ~Orwell, "1984"
Good Morning Lookout
Here's what I've got this beautiful sunny morning in NYC:
The NY Daily News Letters From Our Readers Page is where I found this gem:
"Some people will believe anything. Murders during Rudy Giuliani's 2 terms averaged 890 per year. Bill de Blasio's 8 years saw an average of 360.
But what is the media/public perception? That the spike during COVID represents a trend---despite being 10% LOWER than the murder rate during Bloomberg's 12 years."
That's what the Media is pushing.
Not so surprising because we have a Mayor without a Brain. The LAST THING NYC residents need or want is a restoration of the Stop and Frisk, racial policies under Bloomberg and that is why 7 NYPD Officers have been shot in the first 40 days of Eric the Puppet. The violence against the NYPD is likely to continue and grow into widespread chaos. Which I have to think may be the goal.
(Deadlines for the UnVaccinated are coming up on Friday, but I' will cover the uproar on The Dose.)
Look at this! Canadian and American flags together in NYC.
Your Trade Day shopping looks like fun. Closest thing in NYC are Flea Markets. Which have all but disappeared during covid.
NYCVG
Its nothing like what it was when I was a kid in the 70s
That was a different world. And to think I would go into the city on my own at age 9. Pretty much every weekend.
The fare using the PATH train route cost me 90 cents.
Everybody did it It wasn't like it is today with all the fear. But at the same time, there was much more actual crime.
And arson, landlords burning down their own buildings for the insurance. See the "Bronx is Burning" video.
There used to be great flea markets in the East Bay at the ..
Ashby Ave. BART Station. In Berkeley. Near where the Berkeley Co-op used to be back in the day.
They are probably still having them.
South side Co-op; I patronized the one on Northside
(Shattuck at Cedar) and sometimes the one at University and Acton.
That flea market is still there. There is also one at Laney Colleg, one at Chabot College and one at the Oakland Coliseum.
be well and have a good one,
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
The MSM has achieved their goal of misinformation
successfully selling false narratives...Russiagate, NY murders, Canadian Truckers, and on and on. They have pushed people into tribes whose purpose is to vilify the other tribe. I hope my students learned to think better than that... I know some did.
Enjoy the pleasant weather. It is lovely here.
EDIT to add: We often call Trade Day "The Flea". When it rains they say, "the flea was washed away today".
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
Well, no ladder today...
but got a shovel and garden rake for $6.
Hope one of you might consider picking up this OT.
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
Way overloaded at home for the time being,
sorry.
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
Hey friend...
you do your part around the site and it is appreciated.
Good luck with your projects!
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
LO, our big event
here is the annual fund raiser for the public library. People donate furniture, fixtures, house wares, kitchen wares, wheel chairs, art, and on and on. I once bought a spinet piano! I, in turn, donated it to a church. I remember buying a gorgeous Egyptian cotton duvet and matching pillow cases for $20! It was brand new.
It is always fun to chat and gossip with everybody.
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
sounds like fun....
plus funding a good cause....reading and learning.
All the best!
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
It ain't me babe
It ain't me you are lookin' for...
sorry, wished I could, but I can't... workin' stiff here. Barely have time to look for things I missed a day behind...
We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
both - Albert Einstein