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Top Ten Shopping Heavens

For less than ten bucks, you can wheel and deal with over 2,000 vendors selling everything from vintage clothing to fine furniture.
More than 200,000 peculiar possessions are on display.
They have a tremendous amount of old stuff and things that you've been looking for but you can't find anywhere else.
The problem isn't finding something you like.
It 's not buying everything you like that you see.
But before you can browse this bazaar, you got to wait your turn.
The most scrupulous shoppers line up hours before kickoff time, armed with their morning coffee and an eye for the undiscovered.
These sale seekers are on a mission.
You better get there early because the mad rush of shoppers in the morning is incredible! But the adrenaline rush it provides for you to get there and get out there and hunt is actually really, really fun and exciting.

Inside the gate is a whole new world where trash becomes treasure, and lifelong hobbies are on sale.
We checked in with a few veteran vendors to find out how the Rose Bowl gets converted into a frenzy of fleas The cabinet's been refinished.
Denise and Scott Corbett have been restoring antique phonograph players for over 1 5 years.
Somebody might look at it and say, ''Well, there's no hope for that.'' But we can see it for what it could be and restore it to, to its original glory.
But antiques aren't the only attention getters here.
Mark Young has been collecting beer cans since before he was legal.
How do you amass such a quirky collection? When I was a young child, even too young to drink, I was fascinated by the different beer cans that I saw and I began collecting them.
I scrounge flea markets just like this one.
I travel around the country, and I meet with other collectors and we, we trade.
We buy.
We sell.
Just scrounge.
But outside the stall, you need a knack for negotiation.
So if you're ready to buy, get ready to barter.