A Separate Reality - Black and White
As this swap meet grew, it became too large for the downtown area and was relocated to its present day location in June of 1955.
The market now covers 65 acres with over 1,000 vendors and over 30,000 shoppers arriving each Saturday. Items are sold in many different fashions from the bed of the vendors' trucks, some in booths or yard-sale style.
I'm not sure how I first happened by this place, but I've been a few times now, and it's always a unique experience. Each visit I see something I've never seen before. (This isn't always a good thing.)
To enter, you cross a rickety metal bridge over a dried-up, trash-filled creek bed, passing makeshift picnic areas where discarded fast-food restaurant booths serve as benches. The market itself consists of rows of wooden, open-air stalls. Some of the more popular wares: guns, religious phraseology T-shirts, lots of knives, car parts, Confederate flag paraphernalia, socks, cheap toys, pirated CDs and DVDs, shoes, kitchenware,
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