Photo TR: World's Longest Yard Sale!

[Brandy524]

Officially it’s called the 127 Corridor Sale, but it’s the World’s Longest Yard Sale. It officially starts in Gadsden, Alabama (my town) and runs for 654 miles to West Unity, Ohio. Pretty impressive for that many people to have that much junk to sell, huh? Here’s the website: http://127sale.com/

 

Should I be proud to say that this lovely spectacle of junk begins in my town, about five miles away from my house? I mean, it puts little ol’ Gadsden, Alabama on the map, so to speak. We were on HGTV for crying out loud! That says something, right? Maybe not necessarily something we should be proud of, though. Hmmmm….

 

Anyway, I know not everyone is blessed to live in the South, or along the sale route, so I thought I would be so kind and post a few pictures. But let me warn you, they’re not very exciting. There are a lot of just traffic.

 

So officially the sale begins at Noccalula Falls Park (Gadsden’s only tourist attraction; I may do a trip report for it soon). There are lots of vendors in the parking lot there, and then the sale winds up Tabor Road for miles and miles. These first two pictures are from the Falls.

 

World’s Longest “Outdoor” Sale. Not sure why they changed the sign from “yard sale.” Is yard sale an offensive term? Is anyone here offended by my saying yard sale?

 

I’m not sure if you can read the yellow signs or not, but they say “It’s Only $1.00!” That’s probably because they know it’s all worthless junk. “Hey you’re getting a deal, it’s only a $1.00. It’ll probably break as soon as you get it home, but who cares, it was only $1.00!”

 

There were actually several of these places with the boxes of junk lined up like this. I think they get all this junk wholesale or something.

 

This is the turn down Tabor Road where all the traffic is usually lined up. We went later on in the afternoon when the traffic had started to thin out. The morning is always horrible.

 

Here’s a series of traffic shots, in no particular order.

 

This one is not too bad.

 

Note the cars lined up on the side of the road. Parking is always a nightmare.

 

And yet another line of traffic.

 

 

People come from all over for this sale. I swear, I would not take a vacation to drive across the country just for a yard sale. If it weren’t one road over from my house I wouldn’t even bother. We actually saw a van with a California tag pulling out of a gas station in front of us, but I didn’t get the camera out fast enough to take a picture.

 

Most of the houses along the route have these beautiful caution tapes circling their yard to keep people from parking. “Arg, stay off my yard!” I don’t know why I made them talk like a pirate.

 

Here's a horse-drawn cart sitting on a trailer. There wasn’t a for sale sign on it. I’m not sure why it was there. But what good is a horse-drawn cart with no horses?

 

There are these big open field areas where lots of vendors set up shop. This was one of them. We only stopped at these places because it’s too hard to get two kids out of the car, so we weren’t about to do it for just one vendor.

 

Here’s another big sale spot.

 

Can I interest anyone in a port-a-potty? These were stationed all over the place. We actually saw people in line to use them. Just imagine, the temperature down here was in the 90s, people had been using them all day…I shudder to think.

 

Check out my little diva with her sunglasses on her head. This is Ally.

 

Poor Cammy’s sunglasses kept sliding off her nose.

 

This car, though I have no idea what kind or what year, was $35,000. Please tell me who is going to buy a car for $35,000 at a yard sale. Can anyone tell what kind of car this is? I really have no idea. It’s nice though. Not $35,000 nice.

 

Here are some beautiful, high quality flowerpots made from old tires. Aren’t you just dying to make a trip to Alabama to purchase one of these? This would make the trip completely worth it. And they slap the A on there because Alabama fans will buy anything that has the A on it, right?

 

We only bought two things, and no, these flowerpots were not one of them. We bought an antique bed to put in the girls’ room, and a broom from the Lions Club.

 

We had to squeeze the bed into the back seat, which sort of put the girls in prison.

 

 

And here is my husband, Danny, doing the driving.

 

And I leave you with a picture of myself. I hate taking pictures of myself because I have short arms and the pictures always look bad that close. But short arms be damned, here you go.

 

 

I hope you enjoyed our “trip” to the longest overpriced junk spectacular. If you want to see this in person it’s always the second weekend of August!

[Mr. Starr]

654 MILES!

 

OK that's crazy.

We have this like Great American Yard Sale going on at the mall, but it's just in the parking lot.

 

What exactly are some weird things you find there? I assume that they must have a lot for 654 miles of junk!

[Brandy524]

For some reason everyone thinks people want to buy old glass bottles. I mean practically every vendor had glass bottles. Just junk. Now some people actually have antiques and stuff, but most people don't.

 

The place that had the lovely tire flowerpots also had tire parrots and horses. We usually only go about 10 miles up. Kettlecorn was a big thing this year; there were kettlecorn booths everywhere. Usually you can find really good lemonade but we couldn't find any this year, only kettlecorn.

[Teacups Make Me Sick]

Ha! The flowerpots made of tires are great!

 

Do they also sell those airplanes made of Bud cans??