The now two-day flea market had 400-plus vendors, 20 food trucks and gobs of original art, music and collectibles.
TRENTON -- Thousands of people flooded the historic Roebling Machine Sunday, perusing and purchasing wares from 400-plus vendors at the Trenton Punk Rock Flea Market.
Sunday capped the growing event's two-day spring market.
From homemade soaps to custom-made signs crafted from license plates, vendors said the Trenton flea market is now a major destination from art ad music to other original items. The first flea market commenced in January 2013.
"This is one of the few flea markets you go to where you can find real art," Rob of Jersey Plate Art said. He declined to give his last name, he's just Rob, and Jersey Plate Art is a side hobby.
Rob said he has gone to the Punk Rock Flea Market since its first year and has been collecting old license plates and crafting them into personalized signs for six years.
Rich Hundley - a photographer by trade from Hamilton - was set up at a table selling "turn-of-the-century" cameras dating back to 1907.
"I have 6 to 700 cameras at my house," Hundley said. "I enjoy the films, it's fun."
Amanda and Adam Sirine with 10-year-old daughter Harper - residents of Pennsylvania said "everything" was cool at the flea market.
"It's really cool," Amanda Sirine said, "There's lots of good stuff. Lots of dead stuff. We got these cool hats."
Harper said she liked a purse with brass knuckles on it the most.
Therasa Stephenson, also of Pennsylvania, said she was happy to make it out to the flea market for the first time this year.
"It's awesome," Stephenson said. "I've been told to come here so many times and I finally got the chance."
Stephenson said she liked the jewelry made from "skulls and bones" the best.
Other vendors included Little Punk People: Family Art and Entertainment Collective, Etched In Embers: Fine Art and Pyrography, and Love Little Plants, which sold cactus and books on how to care for the plant.
Founder and organizer Joe Kuzemka said he was anticipating between 8,000 and 10,000 people at the two-day auction.
For the first time, the market had a live music stage, organized by Panic State Records.
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