2/PSH NEWS
Flea markets offer treasures for all
Lisa Budwig
Special to the
Capital Times
Cars turn into the sacred valley
between the towering drive-in screen and
the speedway stadium. Hundreds, then
thousands of people arrive for the Silver
Spring Flea Market.
A jungle of houseplants and flowers
bursts from a Chevy van.
Great-aunt Minnie's hats, coats and
attic treasures magically appear,
transported through time in the back of a
Ford station wagon.
Boxy steel trucks unfurl their awnings
and, ahh, the smells! The yeasty aroma of
hot soft pretzels and funnel cakes, the
grilled gusto of steak subs and sausages,
the rich warmth of hot chocolate and fresh
coffee. The smells rise with the sun.
Flea markets. Where else can you find
the light-hearted camaraderie of a
neighborhood yard sale, the gastronomic
delights of a county fair, the sharp-eyed,
smooth-tongued hustle of a New Jersey
boardwalk, and the most mind-boggling
array of stuff you could ever imagine?
Birmingham
Baseball Cords
and Coins
Monday and Friday 12-8 p.m.
Hours Tuesday and Wednesday 10 a.m. -5 p.m.
Thursday 10 a.m. -8 p.m.
Saturday 10 a.m. -2 p.m.
4 North Union Street Middletown 944-6380
Monday Night Football
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12 wings for $1.44 (plus tax)
Until 11 p.m. Eat-in only
Reduced draft specials
$1 off domestic pitchers
25 cents off domestic mugs
9 East Main Street Middletown, PA
944-9971
For college students seeking cheap
entertainment, good old-fashioned,
gloriously bad-for-you type food, and off- Jm Kids, tugging at their distracted
the-wall ways to transform four jpothers’ coats, discovering new wonders
institutional walls into "home sweet every turn.
home," flea markets score on all couksS# HT Studious old men, hands shoved deep
For these cost-conscious rebels, the'nA Jpn their pockety, tagging along five tables
market is a kind of anti-mall. behind wives.
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HARRISBURG AREA FLEA MARKETS
Silver Spring Antique & Flea Market, 6416 Carlisle Pike, Mechanicsburg. Over 300
vendors, inside and outside. Hours: 7 a.m. to 3 p.m., Sunday only.
Saturday's Market, 3751 E. Harrisburg Pike, Middletown. Over 250 vendors,
mostly inside. Hours: 8 a.m. to 6 p.m., Saturday only.
Haar's Auction & Flea Market, Route 15, Dillsburg. About 50 vendors, mostly
inside. Hours: 7 a.m. to 4 p.m., Sunday; 5:30 p.m. to 9 p.m., Tuesday and Friday.
Josh Richman, part-time PSH student,
sometimes accompanies his father, Irwin
Richman, professor of American studies
and an avid flea marketer. But whereas the
elder Richman searches for additions to his
already impressive art collection, Josh
says, "I like looking at the people."
People-watchers can have a field day
scoping the endless parade of bargain-
hunters, deal-makers, and pack-rats who
frequent the markets.
Country club women, leather-clad men,
giddy teenagers.
Why do so many people go to flea
markets?
"I don't know why I go," says Chris
Bradley, high school English teacher and
PSH graduate student. "My mother loves
See Flea Markets, page 5
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Fellow Award are being accepted by the
Penn State Alumni Association.
Nominees must be full-time faculty
with a minimum of three years of
teaching experience.
Students, faculty, administrators,
staff, parents, alumni and friends of
Penn State may submit nominations.
The deadline for nomination
submission is Nov. 15, 1991.
Candidates will be judged based on
three criteria: general teaching;
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Marshall said he had a problem with
the camera.
”1 thought the camera placement was
bad," he said. "You have to look at the
camera above the monitor, so if you look
the other person in the eye on the screen,
it seems like you're lookijg dQwn. I kept
looking him in hard to
remember to look into, the caitftfra."
Most of.thfr equipment’cahig on loan
from University Park. Penn Slate
Harrisburg paid for ’some cable, an
amplifier, a speaker and the installation
cost.
The signals are sent over telephone
lines. They go on the lines to the
basement into a CODEC (code/decode)
machine. When the message reaches the
other end, another CODEC machine
decodes the signal and puts the image on
the monitor.
Right now there are five available
lines, four of which are being used. The
four locations are University Park,
Harrisburg, Behrend and the Hershey
Medical Center. The location of the fifth
station is undecided.
In the future, when students express
more interest, Martz hopes to run
All statements must address the three
criteria.
Persons wishing to submit
nominations may obtain the appropriate
forms by contacting the Penn State
Harrisburg community relations office
in room W-106, Olmsted Building.
Nominations should be sent to:
Teaching Fellow Award
c/o Penn State Alumni Association
105 Old Main
University Park, PA 16802
workshops to help students get the most
out of their video interviewing.
"We'd like to help the students learn
how to look their best, control their voice,
use make-up, etc..." Martz said.
After the interview, both the student
and the interviewer are asked to fill out a
survey and offer suggestions for
improvement. Martz said so far the
system is getting favorable reviews from
all people involved.
"We learn as we go," Martz said. "As
more students use it, we get more
suggestions."
"For apprehensive students, I will let
them come in before the day of the
interview and see how the system works,
how they'll look on screen, whatever,"
Martz said. "I hope to get like Behrend,
they're running out of available time slots.
They call me up to see if we have any
available time slots."
Penn State Harrisburg and Behrend
currently share the system and split the
day. Behrend uses the line from 10 a.m.
to 1 p.m. and Harrisburg uses it from 2
p.m. to 5 p.m.
For more information, students can
contact Martz in the career services office,
W-117.