Street Market Report - September 22, 2013

It was the first really rainy day of the season. In the morning, at 7am, there were no vendors at all and the rain was really coming down. By 8:30 there were a handfull. We quickly hatched a plan to cover the park with tents to try and save the market. By 10am, however, enough vendors had accumulated and the rain had subsided, so that we decided to close half the street and just use the park and the south end of Carrall.

The market happened.

On a day like today, this is all we can hope for.

This was the first day that we did not have to move our equipment up from the basement of the Lux Hotel. We still need to build a good ramp, but everything went OK.

We recently got a great article published in Vice magazine. When the guy was interviewing me, I tried to get in so many points it was hard to remember whether I was coherent at all. Check it out at: http://www.vice.com/en_ca/read/inside-vancouvers-downtown-east-side-junk-market

Financial Report

1) Tents/Tables - $85.00 (did not try too hard since the vendors needed them so badly during the rain)
2) Coffee/Pop Sales - $54.00 (virtually no pop sold, coffee sold out, however)
3) no 50/50
4) no donation sales

Vendor Count

55 @ noon