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If you have a favorite flea market, post a comment to this blog article and we’ll add a link to the show.  If you just want to promote your own flea market or even markets or shows that you will attend as a dealer, this is the place to do it.  Black Market Antiques will not approve comments with links to markets and shows elsewhere in this blog unless they are deemed relevant to the specific article.

Please include as much info about the market/show which you are promoting including website address, location, contact info and dates.  Dealer rent or booth rental rates would also be helpful.  The markets that appear below are ones that have been submitted or have been written about by someone at Black Market Antiques on this blog.

Ohio

Rogers Open Air Flea Market: Rogers, OH – Open every Friday from 7:30 AM till ?

Pennsylvania

Flea Market: Beside Bowling Alley on Rt. 322 north of Clarion, PA.  Saturdays & Sundays, dealer spots $10.  814-797-5597 for details.

Flea-Tique at Bull Creek: Tarentum, PA – Third Sunday each month through October.   $25 per spot for dealers.

Hazen Flea Market: Brookville/Hazen, PA -First Sunday each month, and Saturday before (the day before the first Sunday), dawn till evening, May through October.  $15 per spot per dealer per day.

Peddler’s Ridge Flea Market: Strattanville, PA – Exit 70 of Interstate 80, Saturdays & Sundays each week through end of summer.

Trader Jack’s Flea Market: Bridgeville, PA – Saturdays & Sundays 6:00AM – 3:00 PM year round.

The Peddler’s Ridge Flea Market is now open for the summer on Saturdays and Sundays every week.  If you’re driving through Pennsylvania on Interstate 80, the flea market is located just a quarter mile off of exit 70 (Strattanville).  Peddler’s Ridge is not a big flea market, but they are open each weekend with a couple dozen vendors.

Perhaps the nicest thing about Peddler’s Ridge is the fact that all the vendors are antique dealers and the inventory is all antiques and vintage collectibles.  No new items or crafters.   Probably not worth a three hour drive for most antiquers, but if you’re in the area it’s worth a look.

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.