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The Santa Fe Springs Swap Meet is a flea market and music venue in Santa Fe Springs, California. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It predominantly caters to Mexican Americans and Chicano culture, [ 4 ] selling food and beverages, art, clothing, household goods, and more unusual products.
An indoor swap meet in the United States, especially Southern California and Nevada, is a type of bazaar, a permanent, indoor shopping center open during normal retail hours, with fixed booths or storefronts for the vendors. [1] [2] [3] Indoor swap meets house vendors that sell a wide variety of goods and services, especially clothing and ...
In 1964, Ohrbach's opened a 104,000-square-foot (9,700 m 2) store in the San Fernando Valley's Panorama City Shopping Center (the building is now occupied by the Valley Indoor Swap Meet. [10] [11] In 1965, the Miracle Mile store was relocated in the former Seibu Department Store at Wilshire and Fairfax Avenue.
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The Saugus Speedway continues to be the venue for the Santa Clarita Swap Meet. The 1984 movie Meatballs Part II was filmed here. The movie starred Richard Mulligan, Paul Reubens, and Kim Richards. In 1987, the city of Santa Clarita was incorporated, encompassing Saugus and the neighboring communities of Canyon Country, Newhall, and part of ...
Members of the San Diego Hells Angels chapter were suspected in the theft of 2,000 pounds of dynamite from a construction site in San Diego County in September 1977. [5] On January 6, 1978, three members of the Hells Angels' Los Angeles chapter were arrested in possession of a case of the stolen dynamite as well as a machine gun and other weapons.
Sportsmen's Lodge, Studio City, CA. The Sportsmen's Lodge is a hotel located on Ventura Boulevard in Studio City, Los Angeles, California.Operating under various names (including "Hollywood Trout Farms") since the 1880s, the Sportsmen's Lodge is a San Fernando Valley landmark and remains a popular spot for celebrations, dinners and public events.
After visiting swap meets in Los Angeles and Paris’ Thieves Market for inspiration, George Bumb Sr. established the San Jose Flea Market at 1590 Berryessa Road in San Jose, California. He bought 120 acres (49 ha) of an old meat-processing plant and remodeled it to create a market with an initial 20 vendors and only 100 customers per day.