I just got home from 5 days in San Francisco. I went down with a girlfriend to help "fluff" her college daughter's new apartment. I agreed to go and help as she dangled the "carrot" of a trip to the monthly Alameda Flea Market. The "carrot" was well deserved after lots of apartment projects and was a wonderful day.
I spent over 6 sunshine filled hours just browsing the aisles of the show. (view towards the city)

It was good people watching and had a huge variety of stuff to buy. I did not find anything that was mind blowing, but did enjoy the hunt and found a few goodies.
A glimpse of some of the booths or objects that caught my eye...none of which came home with me.
French posters
Yummy colored crepe paper, which I passed on as I have a huge stash.
A petunia pig head. I don't think anyone bought this as It was still there near the end of the show.
For those jadeite collectors.
This booth only sold paper items, posters, old advertisements and such.
Watch parts, old keys and other goodies to sift through.

Tons of vendors had a good assortment of vintage clothes.

And speaking of clothes, this was a great spot to people watch. Some of the outfits that I saw were one of a kind.
Note the stockings, the orange gingham skirt and a tiny straw hat perched on her head.

I liked this dapper sailor outfit as well. Even the shoes were vintage with a little green embellishment.

A giant metal turtle perhaps part of an old play structure. It I had bought this it would have had to have been strapped to the top of our car from San Fran to Portland!

My favorite thing I saw was this old ice cream sign.

Alas, she had a $400 price tag and I did not have a spot that she would have fit in my house.

She sure was sweet tho. We left the show with a bag of freshly made kettle corn to munch as we started our drive home. What I found will be in my next post. Awesome day!