Been going there since the 80s before the garage opened. Sold in the Garage for a few years and left after it started to tank likely 5 years before this. The garage used to be packed in the first 5 - 10 years of its opening. Then the internet took away a lot of business. I know just about everyone in this video! and all the inside secrets lol The older man at 2:06 in the green coat giving away the candy is Bernie Winkler. He is my absolute closest friend and I still see him today we still exchange business and long talks about the past and the olden days of the flea market. He has been at the market since the early 70s and is an old timer originally in the retail business since the 40s, He has been in every level business including owning a record store and being responsible for the discovery of Eddie Gorme which he was friends with her agent who he called and said You have to come to the record store and hear this girl sing The rest was history after he signed her immediately. He has had many many runs in's and stories with many of the old time Celebrities who sang for the first time in his record store Bobby Vinton also one of them. His brother was the personal photographer for Al Jolson and also for Time magazine. He can tell some amazing stories. He is also quite a comedian and sharp as a tac today at 91 years old. The older looking lady in the very short cropped off hair right after Bernie at 2:13 holding horse in black was a real character a bit I guess you can say off and would drive the dealers crazy her famous line - How much is this? which she would ask relentlessly until they either gave up and let het have it very very cheap or took off till she diaapeared to another booth She would do this with just about anything from a pen a picture a bottle to a marble. Spiked hair guy, A real character never know what his mood was going to be so he was not always very approachable and the outfits he wears in this video are NOTHING compared to some others!! And the other dressed guy at 2:56 in the large coral beaded necklaces is a clothes designer and loves making his own clothes and showing them off at the market. He is very creative and favors black clothing and Asian type looking styles. He makes everything he wears himself. And thats just the tip of the IceBerg, Many of the dealers at this market have some pretty fascinating past many are artist way back from the old New York days in the village and friends with artist at the time like Ed Weiner, Sam Kramer, and Robert Michael Mapplethorpe among others of the the famous Modernist moments of the 50s and 60s as well as old time performers and bushiness owners of old time New York. A shame so much of there history should have been collected in a book about the 26th Street Market.
so many great people in one video Mike Santulli used to sit me in his office upstairs in the garage gave me a lot of insight as a child ... bernie always gave me candy lol ... I remember the lady with short hair "how much". i grew up at that market. son of john the roadrunner of roadrunner antiques .... great times i wish we recorded more of
@@johngommjr4623 that's really nice to hear as you know they did re-open the market again which I have not visited it since it's on a completely new management from what I hear from Bernie who I still talk to, get that woman with the short short hair used to joy the deal is crazy. I sold at there myself for a few years when the garage first opened.
The "Garage" fleamarket at 116 West 125th street between 6th and 7th Ave does not exist anymore !!! Unfortunately closed !!! It's now at 29-37 West 125th between 6th and Broadway (Open Air) Ruud Mulder The Netherlands
+akadba dave Thank you. I know where to go and we meant the same place, but still a schame because of the one dollar Fee. Every other fleamarket is for free, even the Hells Kitchen at 9 Ave at 39th street. I still mis the garage which I visited almost every year. Take care.
2:26. Leslie where are you?
Been going there since the 80s before the garage opened. Sold in the Garage for a few years and left after it started to tank likely 5 years before this. The garage used to be packed in the first 5 - 10 years of its opening. Then the internet took away a lot of business. I know just about everyone in this video! and all the inside secrets lol The older man at 2:06 in the green coat giving away the candy is Bernie Winkler. He is my absolute closest friend and I still see him today we still exchange business and long talks about the past and the olden days of the flea market. He has been at the market since the early 70s and is an old timer originally in the retail business since the 40s, He has been in every level business including owning a record store and being responsible for the discovery of Eddie Gorme which he was friends with her agent who he called and said You have to come to the record store and hear this girl sing The rest was history after he signed her immediately. He has had many many runs in's and stories with many of the old time Celebrities who sang for the first time in his record store Bobby Vinton also one of them. His brother was the personal photographer for Al Jolson and also for Time magazine. He can tell some amazing stories. He is also quite a comedian and sharp as a tac today at 91 years old. The older looking lady in the very short cropped off hair right after Bernie at 2:13 holding horse in black was a real character a bit I guess you can say off and would drive the dealers crazy her famous line - How much is this? which she would ask relentlessly until they either gave up and let het have it very very cheap or took off till she diaapeared to another booth She would do this with just about anything from a pen a picture a bottle to a marble. Spiked hair guy, A real character never know what his mood was going to be so he was not always very approachable and the outfits he wears in this video are NOTHING compared to some others!! And the other dressed guy at 2:56 in the large coral beaded necklaces is a clothes designer and loves making his own clothes and showing them off at the market. He is very creative and favors black clothing and Asian type looking styles. He makes everything he wears himself. And thats just the tip of the IceBerg, Many of the dealers at this market have some pretty fascinating past many are artist way back from the old New York days in the village and friends with artist at the time like Ed Weiner, Sam Kramer, and Robert Michael Mapplethorpe among others of the the famous Modernist moments of the 50s and 60s as well as old time performers and bushiness owners of old time New York. A shame so much of there history should have been collected in a book about the 26th Street Market.
so many great people in one video Mike Santulli used to sit me in his office upstairs in the garage gave me a lot of insight as a child ... bernie always gave me candy lol ... I remember the lady with short hair "how much". i grew up at that market. son of john the roadrunner of roadrunner antiques .... great times i wish we recorded more of
@@johngommjr4623 that's really nice to hear as you know they did re-open the market again which I have not visited it since it's on a completely new management from what I hear from Bernie who I still talk to, get that woman with the short short hair used to joy the deal is crazy. I sold at there myself for a few years when the garage first opened.
Maybe you remember my father John the roadrunner. We were set up at the outdoor paid market parked on 25th by the light pole for 20 years
Cool video. Cool People.
I know that man at 3.06 !!! Saw him in september 2016 at 59th street/5th Ave still the same outfit .........great !!!
Lovely video !!!
The "Garage" fleamarket at 116 West 125th street between 6th and 7th Ave does not exist anymore !!! Unfortunately closed !!! It's now at 29-37 West 125th between 6th and Broadway (Open Air) Ruud Mulder The Netherlands
+akadba dave Thank you. I know where to go and we meant the same place, but still a schame because of the one dollar Fee. Every other fleamarket is for free, even the Hells Kitchen at 9 Ave at 39th street. I still mis the garage which I visited almost every year. Take care.