 The Alameda Point Antiques Fair takes place on the first Sunday of every month and boasts over 800 vendors. Established in 2000, the market sells a wide range of vintage goods, with loyal customer install owners returning each Sunday, year after year. I went to learn more about these vendors and what keeps them coming back. I think I've come in for three or four years now. You like the community. It's very friendly to people. The 80s, 70s back. The people buy the old jewelry, 1960, 1970s, 80s again. When I come in, I see this place is pretty good for the old and young people. Well, I've been coming to Alameda for 30 years, the reason being I get to meet a lot of people, nice people like you, nice people, doctors, lawyers, and we treat them just as bad as anybody else. And they keep coming back. I happen to be Native American. I happen to be full-blooded Apache. So I'm kind of like, enjoy the culture of the American Indian, and therefore I sell some silver braces and turquoise and things like that. And how did you begin selling secondhand items? I used to have a large coin store in Santa Clara, and then people were bringing in jewelry. I've had some pretty famous people come through, and they enjoy what the BS I give them. We do 1950s. We do a little of everything, but we especially in the 1950s and antique fishing tackle you'll see over on the other side. And I do have a lot of beautiful vintage, not vintage antique jewelry, it's beautiful. Golds and jades and pearls and rubies and all kinds of gold, but really nice. I re-upholster these dinette sets, and I custom design them for people, and we have a lot of colors we designed, and we send them all over the American state. It's nice to my village because it's made to last. It was an era where people didn't want to have to keep buying things. They wanted to be able to have a savings and leave things to their children, and these things just last. Yeah. Like today, everything's a throwaway. Well, it's been two years, so I'm coming here to sell vintage rocks. So this is the best place you can sell vintage things in San Francisco, Bay Area. And you can find people from different countries. I'm from Turkey, there's one guy there from Morocco, another one from Afghanistan, and it's a nice place, yeah, a good community. I love things, for example, for rocks, like they're not good, made as good, and these are all handmade. Yeah, I've been coming to Alameda for the past 10 years, and I sell African stuff from different parts of West Africa, or vintage or authentic handmade stuff, yeah. Wow. Do you have a favorite item in your stall right now that you're proud of? I love all my items. All the items I bring from the furniture to the fabrics, the baskets, we love them all. We come back from the villages, mostly like the fabrics, we trade with some food, like locals in the village, they don't need cash, they need some food, we trade the tools, some of them go back to the community to help out, so we try to help each other. I've been coming to Alameda for almost 15 years, we're actually designers and makers of all that rusty bird stuff, like here, you know. I got into this because I worked at High Tech for many, many, many years, and I got sick and tired of it, and I decided to do something else, that's more of a low tech, outdoor kind of stuff, so I enjoy it. Alameda, to me, is maybe, believe it or not, we're not here for money here, because we enjoy the environment, we enjoy the nature of people. This has been Ava Andrews for Cal TV News, with special thanks to Leah Shamir for camera work.