Vintage Market at Hollywood Park

Going? You can check in after it ends.

Half the fun is the arithmetic you run standing over a milk crate — is this a dealer who knows exactly what they have, or somebody clearing out a garage who has no idea. In a lot this size you get both, in the same aisle, on the same morning.

Hundreds of vendors spread across the asphalt in the shadow of the stadium: vinyl, mid-century furniture, Levi's with the right stitching, sports memorabilia, film props, and objects that resist classification entirely. You can cover every row and still walk out certain you missed half of it. The early crowd is serious about this — the resellers and the collectors are through the gate before the rest of the city has finished its coffee.

Monthly Saturdays in Lot A off Century Boulevard in Inglewood, small cash admission at the gate, and the K Line runs close enough to walk.

Go early, and take the friend who cannot pass a record bin without stopping.