Antique Street Faire Not Just for Veterans: Newbies Join Village Event

Suzanne Beckum was nearly boasting as she carried a jewelry rack in the form of a set of dead tree branches. 

“I was really a good deal,” Beckum, a Rancho San Diego resident, said Sunday on La Mesa Boulevard, closed off for seven hours under beautiful skies for the La Mesa Village Antique Street Faire.

She paid $45, she said.

Dozens of vendors rented space for booths—at only $100 a pop—as restaurants and storefronts peeled off shoppers enjoying a light breeze and plenty of people watching for the eighth annual event sponsored by the La Mesa Village Merchants Association.  

Lori Bunselmeier, a newly arrived San Diegan from Redding in Northern California, was operating a booth with an old Underwood typewriter tagged as sold.

How much did she get for it?

“Sixty dollars,” she said. “I inherited it from my 92-year-old father.”