Special community sales Garage sale

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a garage sale advertisement sign.


in areas, garage sales have taken on special meaning community , have become events of special local significance. large areas of community hold communal garage sale involving numerous families @ same time.


the highway 127 corridor sale, promoted world s longest yard sale, encourages private individuals , professional vendors conduct simultaneous yard sales along 630-mile (1,010 km) corridor spanning 5 u.s. states.


running east west, coast-to-coast yard sale runs along 50 in may of each year. though not popular world s longest yard sale, 50 coast-to-coast sale in 16th year.


during second saturday in august, 50 miles (80 km) stretch of u.s. route 11 becomes continuous yard sale @ stephens city, virginia s newtown commons south new market, virginia. event, in ninth year, sponsored shenandoah county chamber advisory group, 5 chambers of commerce, , 2 town governments. in years past, yard crawl has attracted people far away canada.


in bondi beach, australia, first garage sale trail took place part of sizzle bondi community festival on may 9, 2010. 126 garage sales occurred simultaneously. garage sale trail designed reduce amount of goods dumped instead of sold , re-used. since first event, garage sale trail has won green globes award media excellence, , wentworth courier s business achiever award. in july 2010, organisers of garage sale trail announced intention take garage sale trail national , involve thirty local councils across australia s states , territories potentially making largest garage sale in world.


the semi-annual city wide garage sale first held in october 1990 in el cerrito, california. local resident , reuse advocate, marianne hegeman proposed citywide garage sale facilitate garage inspections in wake of 1989 loma prieta earthquake. city wide garage sales have been replicated in other cities including albany, california; mountain view, california; , eagle mountain, utah.


informal sales occur across country. 1 such example in bismarck-mandan area. coinciding united tribes international pow-wow, tradition weekend following labor day area s biggest garage sale weekend due influx of visitors in area. on given year, total garage sales number @ least 500, while fargo, north dakota surpasses bismarck state s largest city. state event bigger north dakota state fair held in minot, north dakota, during last week of july.








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