Hazen Flea Market Kicks Off Season
This weekend marked the first Hazen Flea Market of the season. A few of us from Black Market Antiques went to the flea market yesterday and a couple will return again for more today. The Hazen Flea Market is held the first Sunday of each month during the summer through October, and the Saturday before the first Sunday. A complete schedule can be found here.
Hazen is an eclectic mix of antiques dealers spaced sometimes inconveniently between hardened sellers of Chinese tools and entrepreneurial housewives selling new shampoo and other things that women like to rub on their skin. It rained about as hard as it could on Friday night, and that kept some vendors away, but still it was a decent turnout with most of the regulars returning.
Prices to me seemed, not cheap, but cheaper than normal. There was lots of talk about the economy from many dealers. A couple dealers expressed their interest in liquidating as much as possible so that they could pay their mortgage or this bill or that. Hazen is in rural PA, just the place that President Obama was (in my opinion) referring to when he made the “guns and religion” comment, and Obama was the subject of many comments that I heard in discussions of the economy. It seemed even the staunchest conservatives were using a tone of hope when discussing him. A lot of dealers seemed very anxious about the economy.
I haven’t seen what all the other guys from Black Market Antiques purchased yet, but I picked up a bunch of nice smalls that will be added to the online inventory in the coming week. Look for a real nice set of original Jarts lawn darts in a decent original box. Not the biggest ticket item in the world, but they go fast when we have them.
