Busy November for Antique & Vintage Events

It's November, when thoughts turn to gift-giving, decorating, parties... Here's a list of antique fairs and shows from Cochran's Events section to inspire you.

Nov. 4-6: Hillsborough Antiques, Art & Design Show, San Mateo Events Center. www.hillsboroughantiquesartdesign.com

Hillsborough Antique, Art & Design Fair

Nov. 5: Antique Warehouse Peddler's Parking Lot Sale, 5351 Pirrone Rd, Salida, CA. www.antiquewarehouseauctions.com, (209) 545-9460

Nov. 5-6: Christine Palmer Puyallup Antique Show, www.christinepalmer.net, (503) 282-0877

Nov. 5-6: Puyallup Semi-Annual Sale: Discounts up to 50% off throughout Puyallup's antique district, during the Palmer Puyallup Antique Show. www.antiquedistrict.net, (253) 445-8330.

Nov. 6: Santa Monica Airport Outdoor Antique & Collectible Market, Santa Monica Airport. www.santamonicaapirportantiquemarket, (323) 933-2511

Nov. 12-13: Goat Hill Fair, Santa Cruz Fairgrounds. www.goathillfair.com

Goat Hill Fair

Nov. 13: Sacramento Antique Faire, 21st and X Streets. www.sacantiquefaire.com, (916) 600-9770

Nov. 13: RG Canning Rose Bowl Flea Market, www.rgcshows.com, (323) 560-SHOW (7469)

Nov. 19: Wit's End Monthly Flea Market, Wit's End Vintage & Collectibles, 1433 Tollhouse Rd, Clovis, CA. (559) 905-3674.

Nov. 19-20: Tanner's Marketplace Antiques, Collectibles, Art & Crafts Show, Reno Livestock Events Center. www.tannersreno.com.

Tanner's Marketplace

Nov. 20: RG Canning Ventura Flea Market, Ventura County Fairgrounds. www.rgcshows.com, (323) 560-SHOW (7459)

Nov. 25-26, Dec. 2 & 4: Christine Palmer Christmas Bazaar, Portland Expo, www.christinepalmer.net, (503) 282-0877

Post-Deadline, More Stores Added to the Guide

The 2013 Cochran's Collector's Guide was published last November in hardcopy, and is now in the hands of thousands of antique shoppers who picked them up in our advertisers' stores. It's our 24th annual edition!

The online version took a little longer. Software we had used for years to reproduce the annual Guide for online use was suddenly made obsolete, and new software had to be acquired and learned (those learning curves are pretty steep sometimes!) And then, to complicate matters further, the software we needed to convert the online version for use on mobile devices also needed to be replaced. Another learning curve. Our Webmaster was at it for weeks! But now we have both, up to date.

As happens every year, we heard from some stores after we went to press last fall: "When's the next edition come out? I want to be included!" But the Guide is an annual publication—once it's gone to the press we don't produce another one until the following fall. However, the online version is infinitely updatable, one of the things we love about the Internet. So we have been able to add the following advertisers to the 2013 Guide:

• CALM Antique Show & Sale, Santa Barbara, CA, pg. 10 (view their website at www.calmantiqueshows.com. They have three shows a year and the next one is coming up on May 17-19, so check it out pronto!

• The Pennyfarthing, Sacramento, CA, pg. 61 (view their web page at: www.cochrans.com/pennyfarthing

• Magpie Antiques and All Things Inspiring, Ripon, CA, pg. 73 (see their web page at: www.cochrans.com/magpie 

• King Richard's Antiques, Whittier, CA pg.  (See their website at www.kingrichardsantiques.com)

• Tons of Treasures, Laguna Niguel, CA, pg. 123 (See their web page at  www.cochrans.com/tonsoftreasures 

Put on Your Walking Shoes, It's Showtime

You can count on beautiful weather just about anywhere in the West in September, and organizers of some of the most popular outdoor and indoor antique events take advantage of these lovely days...

Coming up this weekend is the Coburg Antique Fair in Coburg, OR, near Eugene. Coburg was named after Coburg, Germany, a source of quality horses, after the local blacksmith admired a particularly fine horse from there. Over 350 antique dealers from over six states bring their finest goods to the streets of downtown Coburg. You can spend the entire day, enjoying live music and noshing at the many food booths. Admission and parking are free. Shown: Coburg's name may have been inspired by a horse, but the horseless carriage has a place of honor there, too.


If you're closer to Idaho, another show is going on this weekend that you're sure to enjoy, especially if you love music as well as antiques and primitives at the Vintage Barn in Rathdrum, (near Coeur d'Alene). Saturday's show (9am-4pm) features two bands: the Northern Idaho Hat Band and the Prairie Flyer. And the 40 vendors specialize in everything rustic and primitive: cottage, farmhouse and cabin style, salvaged finds, vintage western and garden items. If all that browsing makes you hungry, there are fresh baked goods and treats.


Vintage Fashion Expo Sept 20-21, Nob Hill Masonic Center in San Francisco. This fair has been beguiling visitors with haute couture and funky wearable finds for 20 years. Concurrent with the Frida Kahlo art exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art through Sept. 28, one exhibitor is going all out with these embellished Mexican jackets, skirts and accessories dating back to the 40s.

Petaluma Antique Fair (now in its 22nd year!) Sun, Sept 28, Kentucky Street in downtown Petaluma. Shown: one of the historic ironfront buildings in downtown Petaluma provides a period backdrop over the many booths of their semi-annual antique street fair.

At Alameda Point in Alameda, the place to go the first Sunday of every month (Sept. 7) is the Antiques By The Bay fair, reportedly the largest in California with 800 booths, where everything for sale is (they promise) 20 years or older. If you're an earlybird you can be admitted here as early as 7:30am. Shown: A vendor of vintage Coca Cola and jukeboxes.


And on the second Sunday of the month (Sept. 14) the Sacramento Antique Fair takes place outdoors on 21st St. between W and X Streets.It's another one that opens early...6:30am... and there's coffee waiting for you. Shown: shoppers look over some vintage brassware.