My babe and I heard about a huge flea market in Richmond, but couldn't think of the name of it. Needless to say, I don't know if it's called Jeff Davis Hwy Flea Market, but we saw this market from the highway and decided to exit.
Glad we did, we found some items that were worthy of our coins.
This place is pretty large to be indoors. Not a variety of vendors, but to say the least they definitely made good use of their space. All vendor spots were in use.
There is a fresh market located outside in front of the flea market and seemed to be getting the bulk of the customers that day.
We visited on a early Sunday afternoon. The weather was perfect so this may have explained the heavy traffic flow of customers in and out of the store.
Stores here included: clothes, oils, ethnic stores, purses, shoes, hardware etc.
Oh they even have guys out front detailing cars in the parking lot.
I have been to several flea markets in my day, but I can't say this one stands out above the rest. It was more of a garage sale than a flea market. However, I did find some purses for my daughter that were price decent. While she wanted a name brand these were knock offs clearly but at least no name was printed on the bag. Therefore, I didn't mind paying bottom dollar for a knockoff and it's clearly a knockoff. Because I did see purses that were to resemble the MK brand but the MK on the purses were upside down. See now that's just ridiculous...WK - really :(
Nevertheless, one store sold snacks. My babe and I picked up a container (small) of popcorn. One for him and one for me at $1 each and it was good. Pinatas were sold here and the candy to go inside too.
There was some kind of coin machine game that you could win quarters if they fell over the ledge. That game seemed to be popular among customers because they definitely drew a crowd. I had to peek over and check it out for myself.
I also bought a hat for next Winter that I paid $12. Now this really isn't a 'FLEA' MARKET because the vendors definitely didn't bargain on the pricing. They may have knocked the price down by a dollar or two - sheeeesh right! Oh well.
There were several body oil (scented) vendors, but I noticed only one was getting business. Therefore, I came to this one too. Oils were sold at $5 each. I picked out 5 for a total of $20 and the guy told me to pick up another so 6 oils for $20 that's the deal I like!!
Now coming from Chesapeake I don't think I will drive almost 75 minutes to come back here, but if we are in the area, we will definitely stop by just to see what else we can find.
Oh - they have barbers and hairstylists on site too. Let's see also furniture (odd pieces), sound system store, and jewelry (some nice while others ummmm yeah). Children's clothing, children's toys...
If anything this flea market passes the time away it's rather large inside.
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