This is a eulogy for the Berkeley Flea Market, a largely unheralded institution that for several decades exemplified the values of the city that hosted it.
Its last official day was Saturday, June 28, when the small number of vendors in the Ashby BART station parking lot offered evidence of the flea market’s gradual decline.
But that should not obscure the expansive vision behind it, and the contributions it made for nearly half a century to the sustenance and soul of Berkeley…