Location: Indianapolis State Fair Grounds
When: Annually in January
It was the early summer of 1999 and while I detested the fact that I was up at 8:00 a.m., I was excited for the weekend adventure that awaited. So many of my memories growing up involve riding around in my grandmother’s mid-80s Crown Victoria with her (that was still in pristine condition because grandparents always have a car they hardly use) , my mother, and brother. On this particular adventure we were going garage (rummage according to grandma) sale hunting. The weekends we would spend driving around various parts of the region looking for garage sales was also fun to me because each one transported you to its own unique world. Each world told the story of it’s inhabitants with a variety of trinkets, relics of the past, clothes, toys, etc., which is why the Greater Indianapolis Garage Sale & Marketplace was so exciting to me – it’s an event where all of those tiny worlds come together.
