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BY BOBBIE EFTEKHAR
The Battalion
or almost six years it has remained a secret. Un
knowingly many students pass by it on their
way home to Houston. Although a majority of
s customers may not include students, the Jockey
otjFlea Market has been open and thriving.
®pened in spring of ‘93 by an Aggie, it is now
wned by a corporation from South Carolina. The
orporation rents out spaces to merchants and each
lerchant sells anything from tires, tables and pens
p clothes, cookies and birds.
1 Boyde Nash, an employee of the flea market, said
le [flea market has items to cater to all needs.
■The flea market carries anything from beanie ba
tes to fine jewelry, imported leather goods to mu-
tic, cosmetics to a jewelry repair store,” Nash said,
■lash said there is a variety of items being sold,
s well as a variety of people selling them. The mer-
hants who sell items vary from organizations to
ne-weekend sellers. Bryan-College Station Chapter
20( of the Disabled American Veterans, Inc, is one
|f ire organizations selling goods at the market,
floyd Wells, commander of the local chapter of the
)AV, said many of the items for sale are great for dec-
Charlse Smith, merchant at the Jockey Flea Market,
watches his goods.
irating.
“We sell pictures and tapestries for good prices,’
ie said. “These pictures start out for $5, and it’s pret-
|Bard to go anywhere and buy a nice picture for
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-5.”
^^^■ven the neighborhood Avon lady can be found
|t tie Jockey Lot Flea Market. Angela Reed has been
Avon products for the past five and a half
■ears. Reed said she has been there since two weeks
«oto courtb>? f te , ^0 fi ea market first opened,
of Aggies a |i have specials all the time, said Reed. “Some-
*> ^ws I have one-dollar lipsticks or two-dollar eye
hadows. It’s whatever I feel like that day.”
11 ^ r( \ II jewelry repair is on your to-do list, the Jockey
^‘ inie ’ ,ot Flea Market can accommodate. Ernest Zaragoza,
! ! iwier of a jewelry repair booth, said he does all jew-
W repairs as well as special orders. Zaragoza said
develop a! ie i^s a shop in Navasota and serves a wide variety
Iking to as if leople from Waco to Bryan, but he also has a
•roadened tooth in the flea market to get more of a student
>opi lation.
ie Black Ad for the knife collectors and pellet gun fans, Peg-
lection tovIY Montain has an interesting collection, including
other mini'hipese stars, swords and machetes. Montain has
teei a merchant at the Jockey Lot Flea Market for
, M hrae years, and prior to that she owned a store in
' 10 , 0,n Trykn. She said there is a large flow of people at the
ue,he t rS STmarket.
: first he spending a long day at the flea market,
le’s an ex® iMng furniture, lamps, clothes and, of course.
beanie babies, one might get a little hungry.
There is a food area with three separate booths
where hot dogs, popcorn and sandwiches can be
found.
Irene Sienko, a booth worker, said she enjoys the
food as well as the atmosphere. She reminds all the
customers to stop for a bite to eat.
“Don’t forget to have a little snack,” Sienko said.
“The food’s pretty good.”
As for her love of the flea market, she said there
is something for everyone.
“You never leave a place like this without buying
something,” Sienko said.
Wells said they try to bring items customers want.
He hopes to bring more Texas A&M students to the
booth and is open to any suggestions on items stu
dents, as well as customers, would like to buy.
Nash said among the customers of the flea mar
ket, about 100 students visit per weekend. The num
ber increases during special events, such as Parent’s
Weekend, when many students and their families fill
the flea market.
“You’d think among the 40,000 students at A&M,
more would come,” Nash said.
He said he compares the flea market to a treasure
hunt and many antique dealers are determined to
find the treasure.
“There are some pretty good deals out there; you
just have to know where to look,” he said. “No
body’s found a million dollar chunk of gold or the
original Declaration of Independence, but occasion
ally people have found a nice size diamond, quality
gold and silver or an antique they may have paid a
dollar for and later find out it is worth $100.”
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