[Caroline and Colleen checking out mirrors and architectural salvaged items]
The new AT DC team recently met up at Eastern Market, one of our favorite places. Photos of us above and below! We love strolling through the market on Sundays to check out the furniture, books and other great finds. The indoor market is open year round, Tuesday to Sunday, and offers produce, flowers, baked goods and more. On the weekends, more vendors set up stalls outdoors to sell furniture, crafts, home goods, art and jewelry...
Why is it that every where but the Pacific NW has great flea markets. These are some great copper containers in the one picture...I miss flea markets.
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I still gotta say, far prefer Eastern Market to the Brooklyn Flea. :-( Miss it much. Stop by at the Lunch Market, get some bluebucks for brunch, and tell Tom I said hello...
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I just moved to Capitol Hill SE for summer research and fell IN LOVE with eastern market- not just the spot and shops, but the crunchy yuppie neighborhood and all the dogs and gardens (more per square foot than NY or Philly). The market will be even more beautiful when it reopens in the original building.
I'm a big fan of the jewelers that sell there on Saturday, esp. Bettye's Beads- Joan, the artist there, hand crochets necklaces out of copper wire around silver beads and pearls. The effect is stunning, and most are under $50.
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I kind of prefer the "Georgetown" flea market (in Arlington, near Courthouse metro stop) to Eastern Market. Prices are a little better and the stuff is often more interesting.
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Hard to imagine SE being a yuppie hot-spot...I remember it being a gang-infested wasteland. When I was there you simply didn't go across the Anacostia. Ever. Nice to see they cleaned it up. I liked the idea of making DC an income-tax free zone to get more upscale people to move there about 15 years ago. Did that ever happen?
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no, boomer, there isn't a tax break to living in Dc. There is "taxation without representation." I hope you keep speading the word that it is too dangerous to live on Capitol hill. The prices have sky rocketed and they will only get worse if word gets out about how great it really is.
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"taxation without representation"? Give me a break. The feds offered to end taxes for them and they said "you're racist". Please.
I'm glad there are finally upscale people moving to southeast though. They should have leveled the place years ago.
Maybe now there's enough of a tax base to keep the fire stations and schools open and maybe pave the roads. Oh and buy snowplows. During the blizzard of '96 people had to dig out their own streets because DC had no snow plows.
And then they elected a crack smoking felon for mayor.
DC gets what they deserve...
Nice place to visit but you couldn't pay me to live there.
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Livin' in the past, boomer.
Not interested in having you as a neighbor. Besides, you probably couldn't afford it. Typical house in Eastern Market neighborhood is close $750,000. Worth . . . every . . . penny.
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