04 January 2009

Antique Road Show.

Seriously.

I went to the Alameda Flea Market today, and it was amazing. I spent a couple hours just roaming the isles looking at booth after booth of colored glass ware, vintage toys, and shabby-chic furniture. However what shocked me wasn't at the fair. It was a suburban neighborhood that was built along side the road that took you too the fair.

Maybe it was Alameda that was unique, or maybe I'm not used to seeing such cookie-cutter suburban sprawl so close to San Francisco. I know the Sunset and parts of the Richmond are dubbed cookie-status, but this was a full fledged 'Agrestic' neighborhood - in Alameda. So weird. On the way back from the market, I noticed an alternative housing development. Left over army homes for the troop families have been turned into public housing, a community parallel to the Agrestic hood. Even more weird.

I did find a gold bracelet at the fair.

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