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The Craft Fair - Casa de Fruta

Sept 5-7, 2009. Located at Casa de Fruta in Hollister on Highway 152 (Pacheco Pass).

This was a three-day show at Casa de Fruta in Hollister. Very nice place to stop over for tourists, but expensive. Around 35 booths there with a variety of merchandise. The people came out during the latter part of each morning and continued until around 2:00 each day. Then it turned into a ghost town. However, they were very hesitant to buy and purchased little from the vendors, most of whom did not fair very well over the weekend. People just not buying, period. Some entertainment. The weather was okay with occasional breezes some gusts now and then. The price for this event, along with others here is quite reasonable, so I'll continue coming back and I guess, so will many of the others. The economy will turn around and we'll just keep on hoping that the coming week's bring a lot of customers that spend money.

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Remembering 9-11

I think we all have not-so-fond memories of that eventful day. I had just taken my son to high school that morning. I dropped by 7-11 to pick up a newspaper (what's that?). They had a TV on over there and I looked up at it and they were showing clips of the first plane crashing into the World Trade Center. Unbelieveable. Truly remarkable. I hurried home and stayed glued to the TV set throughout much of the day.That following weekend, we did the Atwater Fall Festival and the mood was somewhat somber as people were still pretty much in shock. Thinking back, you wonder why they didn't cancel the event, but I guess so many people were already committed (and I had paid my booth fee) to it and it was a source of income for community organizations. The show must go on?

It was in a park there and I guess the vendors didn't really do all that well. Fortunately, I was selling patriotic t-shirts, which were bought by many of the people that attended. In the oncoming years, we never returned to that festival, as we did one closer to home on that weekend, Castro Valley Fall Festival. Our 'fondest' memory of the event was that the music was not very good at all and the singing was out of synch.... and they didn't have these 'idol' contests back then. I know that we need to encourage our singers, but really. Maybe some of those people should have tried an instrument if they 'think' that they are musically inclined. Know what I mean?