BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — It might have looked like the line for a major concert event, or for a really big game, but the queue on a Bakersfield residential street Wednesday morning was neither. It was the line for perhaps the biggest estate sale of the year, perhaps the biggest of all time in this city. At least that’s what veteran estate sale attendees were saying.
The family of John Giumarra Jr., a local farming family of great renown, is having an estate sale near Bakersfield Country Club.
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The Giumarras had lived in the majestically gated, salmon hued, 10,000-square-foot home since 1974, but John, a well-known wine and table-grape grower, died six years ago and his wife Pam about two years ago. Their succeeding generation hired Wildest Estate Sales and Appraisals to run the sale, which runs through mid-day Sunday.
Hundreds stood in line to be admitted Wednesday morning, with some people reportedly sleeping in their cars on the street the night before to get good places in line. As they were admitted some ran giddily up the short but steep driveway like kids entering Disneyland — and there was definitely a storybook sensibility to the proceedings…