Nobody else remembers this, but when I was a kid in Sacramento there used to be a weekly Saturday street fair in back of the Alpha Beta on El Camino. We lived on Franco, so I could just walk back there through the backyard and over the fence, and my best friend Amy used to ride her bike over to my house and come with me. This thing was probably a figment of the early 70′s. If it happened now it would be a regular farmer’s market with none of the good stuff, but in 1975 there were a few people from the neighborhood with eggplant and persimmons, and a bunch of regulars who drove or rode in from Davis or Folsom, and who sold stuff you could never get away with today.
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