I went looking for a cheap dresser in eastern Nebraska and came home with a bag of vintage shirts, a bar of soap that smells like a pine windbreak, and a cider donut I ate before leaving the parking field. The place looked like nothing much from the road, just barns and a grass lot and a line of cars crawling in.
Inside the gates, vendor rows ran farther than I could see, with music playing somewhere behind the tents. It happens only twice a year, which is exactly why people plan around it.
Acres of Booths on the Platte Bottomland
White tents, weathered barn boards, and a grass lot filling steadily with cars make up the first view. Junkstock spreads across acres in Waterloo, a small town in Douglas County where River Road follows the Platte bottomland west of Omaha.
Vendor rows run long enough that most people lose track of where they started…