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Word: englishtown (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sample of the prices and pitches at New Jersey's Englishtown Auction Sales, the largest flea market in the mid-Atlantic region: $3.75 for a solid leather belt ("Why pay a buck for a bonded belt that will become brittle and broken?"); a still-to-be-dickered price for a potbellied-stove door ("When you need it, you need it"); $1.75 for a goldfish ("You get the bowl, you get the sand, you get the fish, you get two weeks' supply of fish food"). Says Steve Sobechko, who owns the Englishtown market: "It's a great recycling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Economy & Business: Bug-Eyed over Flea Markets | 7/31/1978 | See Source »

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