OC Weekly, Volume 22, Number 22, January 27, 2017

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aa anne Barr was set to open a legal dispen- called Bud and Bloom has been operating pensaries to operate within Santa Ana— in Orange County—calling what was
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line of her own products, including can- ter if she had any comments regarding ask if they had money to help him make move to Oregon, he said; he has since
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10 At the time, Barr explained that, aside Herzberg confirmed the news in an $10,000 to the California Homeowners ventures, including Santa Ana dispensary
20ry from being a longtime cannabis user, interview. “The facility is now called Association PAC (which printed mailers OC3 and now Bud and Bloom.
x, a she had been using it medically to fight Bud and Bloom,” he said, “and it’s a very attacking Pulido’s opponents), although he According to the Register, Barr was
xu glaucoma and macular degeneration, two special place.” When asked about Barr’s claimed he gave the money to his neighbor, to be heavily involved with Roseanne’s
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at Cruz’s stall as they head for $5 hoodies
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or $10 bikes. Some just dream of finding a
Basquiat hiding between the pages of the
1984 Bolsa Grande High School yearbook.
The weekend is starting right.
Once widespread across Orange
A weekend in the life of the Orange County, weekly swap meets are now a
mall
rarity, victims to e-commerce and chang-
ing tastes in shopping experiences. But
Coast College Swap Meet the OCC version holds strong. Vendors
by Cynthia Rebolledo
are backed by administrators who have
supported them in the face of calls to shut
osta Mesa is sleeping. It’s 5:30 line inches toward a security guard, who stalls worth of goods; they finish the task them down. Customers—many of them
Saturday morning, a crisp 50 checks credentials to make sure each in minutes, a sleight of hand that’s no big immigrants or elderly or working-class or
degrees, and sunrise is still driver has permission to be here. Once deal when you’ve been selling here for a combination of the three—enjoy coming
a good hour away. But while approved, they drive to a predesignated 26 years. because it’s a gathering place that wel-
the City of the Arts digs into its collective area, and more than 600 vendors begin “The swap meet is a very beautiful comes people like them.
blankets just a little bit longer, a motor- setting up for the Orange Coast College place, but it’s also hard work,” says Cruz. It’s that atmosphere that calls to Char- |
cade clogs up traffic on Fairview Road: old Swap Meet. “When we get home, we have to clean lie, a retired Marine who has regularly O
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pickups and new Rams and U-Hauls and Over the next two hours, metal clinks everything. We’ve been up since 4 in the come for the past 20 years. “I like the W
loncheras and vans and cars packed with and human grunts fill the air as booths morning, and we don’t finish breaking people I’ve met out here,” he says. “It’s E
so much stuff they look as if they’re going pop up, one after the other, and everyone down until 8 p.m.” something to look forward to, and I enjoy E
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to burst. lays out their wares in 450-feet-by-900- Any fatigue quickly fades away as the everyone’s company. It provides a place L
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The vehicles eventually make a left on feet spaces. Jose Cruz, a longtime pro- first customers hit Cruz’s stall at 8 a.m. where people can come to find stuff .
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Adams Street to line up in front of a park- duce vendor, pulls up to the north side of People swarm the family, picking up fruit, without going to the store. A lot of people O
ing lot in Orange Coast College (OCC), the parking lot, where he and his family— holding it right up to their noses, and nowadays can’t afford those high prices.” M
where they wait until 6 a.m. At that time, son, brother-in-law, sister-in-law, nieces, haggling over prices as they fill up bags
the gates open, engines crank up, and the even a compa named Manuel—unload six with fresh produce. Other people glance Continued on page 10 | 9
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sfi has operated ever since. But it was still and then leave,” says Maricela. “Putting taken courses in business and marketing,
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111000 making enough—and this is true for a lot MICAH WRIGHT relationships permanent.