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| - I've driven by this grungy-looking building several times before since morning to Vegas. I'm still on a mission to get a Nintendo Classic game console (since 2012!) because whenever I look online I get distracted and look at other stuff and forget what I was originally looking for (I digress). Somebody from work had told me she bought her Nintendo Classic here and that they had lots for cheap - she had me at "lots" and "cheap". That basically sums up everything that you could find in this place.
I can't say I'm a swap meet newbie. I always find myself in places like this when I travel especially in Asia. I get amused by pretty much anything and would purchase something when I justify it by telling myself "I might need this for something in the future" because seriously, why won't you need a wooden hand-carved Barrel Man?! (Use the Googs if you have no clue what that is).
They have stalls upon stalls of random stuff. Paintings, sculptures, Chinese decors and feng shui stuff, Chinese medicine, Thai beef jerky, jewelry, blinged out stuff for your 70-year-old grandma for when she wants a hot night out with her girls at Bingo, shoes, clothes, toys, cellphones, electronics, stuff that lights up/ glows in the dark, pets, plants, etc. There's a stall that has snakes and lizards that I thought you could buy but I guess you pay them just to have your pictures taken with the reptiles...I didn't bother asking if people actually pay for that because they obviously still have a stall.
I actually found the stall that supposedly has the Nintendo Classic within 2 minutes of being there. They didn't have any. I paid $3 for me and 2 other people to get into the swap meet so, one of them convinced me to look around anyway which is never a good idea if you have a short attention span. There I was bright-eyed wandering around aimlessly hoping to find something I could buy. I found another stall that sells Nintendo but my crew informed me they were fakes.
I did find running shoes that light up. I grabbed a shoe and in my head I was telling the shoe, "I'll need you at the gym someday". Did I buy them? Catch me at the gym!
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