We happened to chance upon the advertisement for this huge antique show held only three times a year in Brimfield, MA, about an hour's drive from Boston. Since MJ is in a camera collecting phase, we decided to head there to try to find good deals for vintage cameras, and were ready to brave the 30,000 crowd and 5,000 antique dealers. It's the largest such show in the country and it was huge! It's impossible to visit every tent/booth within a day. I don't even think one can finish seeing it during the six days of its run. The entire show spans both sides of the road along Route 20, and runs for about 1 mile (1.6 km) on each side and is probably about 5 times (or more) the size of Chatuchak market!The day was pleasant. Parking was ample and not exhorbitant, but one problem is the stuff's everywhere, so even though our objective was to find old cameras, there was no one place which has camera sellers all grouped together. It was the luck of the draw to find a couple of cameras amongst someone's collection of stuff - and boy was there stuff! I read on their website which said that if you can't find what you want in Brimfield, you'll have to live without it cos it can't be found anywhere else! We ended up with only one camera which we got for usd8 after bargaining it down from 12 and a couple of tiffen and hoya filters for 5 a piece. Overall, we didn't buy much but it was fun to go to such a huge show and looking at all the stuff people collect and sell!
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Well written article.
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