On Sunday 17 July there will be a Boot Sale outside The Soccer Center on the north side of the grounds at
7601 Martin Grove Road (1/2 km south of Highway 7 on east side.
Sponsored by The Photographic Historical Society of Canada.
It starts at 8:00 am to 1: pm. Rain or shine.

Boot Sales seem to be common in the UK but I have never heard of one here.
So this will be a first for me.

Mickey

I am also curious to see how the event turns out seeing as this is the same venue used for the indoor shows. Hopefully there won't be too many soccer players competing for parking.

Boot Sale – THIS SUNDAY July 17th 2011 | phsc.ca

interesting, hope i can get down there.

I was there for the 8:00am opening so I don't know what occurred after about 9:00am.
I suspect the affair might have livened up after I left.
However, I found the heat oppressive and debilitating. I feel sorry for those vendors who slowly broiled out there till 3pm.
There was lots of free parking.
I do think the vendors' cars could have been spaced a little farther apart.
One thing bothered me. Very few of the items had price tags and I have a ridiculous theory that if an item is not priced, I cannot afford it.
I do hope it was a resounding success and will lead to more boot sales in the future.
There were 30 cars and vendors with a reasonably good selection of old equipment.
More may have arrived after I left.
I commend PHSC for what, in this part of the world, is an innovative effort.

Mickey

I was around from about 8:15 to 10:30. The last 3 vendors to set up (who came in after I arrived) were in direct sun by the time I left, but everyone else seemed to be doing alright. I ran into 5 or 6 people I know from this and other forums.

With maybe 1/4 the vendors the indoor shows pull there was 2 or 3 times the amount of Pentax stuff I usually see, but that's just the way things go depending on what the vendors bring with them. Many of the accessories and some of the camera bodies were poorly organized in piles and boxes but people seemed willing to negotiate.

I picked up a Nikon focus screen to cut down for my next DSLR, an AF 70-210 zoom, some rear caps and a metal Takumar hood. With a bigger budget I might have grabbed some M and K primes and some more accessories.

Wish I was down the coast last weekend! Not much happens in the southern interior as far as sales events.. I just keep looking into different pawn shops and keeping an eye on Kijiji and Castanet, sometimes ebay.