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unusual facts about flea market



Brooklyn Flea

Founded in 2008 by Jonathan Butler, creator of Brownstoner.com, and Eric Demby, the former communications director for Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz, Brooklyn Flea runs several of the largest flea markets on the East Coast of the United States.

Garbo Talks

Gilbert hires a paparazzo (Howard Da Silva) to show him Garbo's apartment, stakes it out, gets a job delivering food there, seeks her on Fire Island, and tracks her to a Sixth Avenue flea market.

Museumsufer

The street itself is called Schaumainkai and is often partially closed to traffic for Frankfurt's largest flea market each Saturday.

Travis, Staten Island

The West Shore Plaza was also built into this area with the island's only Burlington Coat Factory (before this, it was a flea market, Bradlee's Store and Caldor before that) as the anchor store.


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Lacon, Alabama

Exit 318 of Interstate 65 is the "Lacon" exit and is less than one mile South of the old town site and present day flea market.

Museum of Russian Icons

After meeting Knyazeva and learning more about icons, Lankton began his collection, starting with a small, poor quality icon he found at a flea market in the Izmaylovo District of Moscow.

Swap Shop

The Fort Lauderdale Swap Shop, Florida, a 14-screen drive-in theater complex and flea market

Vallila

Perhaps the most famous scene in Vallila is the small flea market square featured in Aki Kaurismäki's film The Man Without a Past.