Alameda Point Antiques and
Collectibles
With over eight hundred antique dealers selling their wares, the Alameda Point Antiques
and Collectibles Faire stands to be the Antiquing Heaven in North California. With the event happening on every
first Sunday of the month, the Alameda Point Antiques and Collectibles Faire features antique items of quality,
with no reproductions of any items allowed.
One is sure to find an antique worth keeping in the Alameda Point Antiques and Collectibles
Faire. Now celebrating its tenth year, the Alameda Point Antiques and Collectibles Faire is ever growing,
attracting more and more antique dealers, as well as antique shoppers, even attracting buyers hailing as far as
Japan.
Happening on the former Alameda Point Naval Air Station in Alameda, California, the Alameda
Point Antiques and Collectibles Faire was initiated with two hundred fifty booths in 1998, and was attended by an
estimated 3,300 antique shoppers out to do some antiquing.
The Alameda Point Antiques and Collectibles Faire have been featured in home and garden
television programs like “Flea Market Finds”, as well as publications like Sunset Magazine. It is definitely
growing in dealer/shopper attendance.
Antiquing is defined as the act of shopping for antiques, and is usually done in antique
specialty shops, antique auctions, antique specialty bazaars, estate sales, and even in garage sales. Bottom line,
wherever antiques are, antiquing is bound to happen.
The Alameda Point Antiques and Collectibles Faire stands to be the Heaven for
antiquing, as the event simply gives antique shoppers access to various antiques. And, since the Alameda Point
Antiques and Collectibles Faire happens every month, the event’s date frequency simply stands as a testament to the
quality of antiques sold by antique dealers who rent booths to sell their merchandise.
With the venue for the Alameda Point Antiques and Collectibles Faire adjacent to a National
Wildlife Refuge, no pets are allowed when people go to the event for antiquing. Other than that, everyone is
welcome to the Alameda Point Antiques and Collectibles Faire. Co-produced by Betsy and Jerry Goldman and Allan and
Sandra Michaan, the Alameda Point Antiques and Collectibles Faire even has a website arm, titled Antiques by the
Bay.
All in all, if antiquing is your cup of tea, you should take the time to stop by the Alameda
Point Antiques and Collectibles Faire. For sure, you would definitely find something you’d just have to get your
hands on. Every antique lover would find this Sunday affair fun and exciting.
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