"QuartzSite"-? What's the attraction????
Been a member long enough to see the words "goin' to QuartzSite" pop up so often that it seems like I should know what folks are talking about. I finally looked it up and it looks like a Giant ...
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I haven't read every reply but I have a little I want to say. Back, say forty years ago it was the snowbird capitol of California. Some friends of ours who were retired bought a S&B in the Mojave Desert at about 3500 feet. Too cold for winter so bought a trailer to go South. Edith and Harry were rock hounds and Edith wanted to learn silversmithing. Through other friends they learned of an enclave at Q and went down one winter. Edith found a smithing teacher, Harry found places to dig and play golf and they eventually bought an RV lot in a park down there. More and more folks showed up in cars and RV's as time went on and then of course the vendors started show up too. There was a captive audience of RVers there and a show was born.
Some folks are calling it "cheap", I think of it as inexpensive and available for those on "low" fixed incomes. It is a big swap meet and there are some bargains but as with most things it is starting to run it's course and more and more the real "Q'ers" are going elsewhere and the RV and lapidary vendors are too.
Still it is a fun thing for a day or two.
Some folks are calling it "cheap", I think of it as inexpensive and available for those on "low" fixed incomes. It is a big swap meet and there are some bargains but as with most things it is starting to run it's course and more and more the real "Q'ers" are going elsewhere and the RV and lapidary vendors are too.
Still it is a fun thing for a day or two.
