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Fumesucker

(45,851 posts)
Sat Mar 7, 2015, 06:19 PM Mar 2015

Rock the Casbah

Almost every nice weekend I go with a friend or three to the local Casbah, the Flea Market. This was the nicest day we've had in months let alone on a weekend and the Casbah was rocking this Saturday afternoon.

I picked up a couple of old SLR cameras today, one Pentax with a nice 50mm f1.7 SMC Takumar-A and a Yashica with a modest Yashinon zoom, both lenses in very good useable shape. I find collectable camera stuff about every third or fourth weekend, no one else seems to be looking for that sort of thing so I get really good deals. My kitchen, shop and wardrobe are largely filled with items I have picked up at the Casbah.

On one end of the Casbah we have the Authentic Mexican Taqueria/Carniceria and on the other there is a Soul Food barbecue grill (which I managed to miss getting a picture of), in between is the oddest collection of stuff.. About half the people you see in the pictures are the dealers I have considered my friends for years and the rest are random shoppers.

























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Rock the Casbah (Original Post) Fumesucker Mar 2015 OP
I love flea markets! Solly Mack Mar 2015 #1
My pleasure Fumesucker Mar 2015 #2
I am just getting back into SLRs awoke_in_2003 Mar 2015 #3

Solly Mack

(90,787 posts)
1. I love flea markets!
Sun Mar 8, 2015, 07:30 PM
Mar 2015

You meet the most interesting people and can find some really neat things.

Thank you!!

 

awoke_in_2003

(34,582 posts)
3. I am just getting back into SLRs
Mon Mar 9, 2015, 02:32 AM
Mar 2015

So far I have a Minolta SRT-202, X-700 with a motor drive, and X-370. So far, the 202 is my favorite. I lusted.for a motor drive camera in high school, but that 202 just has the right heft.

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