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Monday, September 17. 1979
University Daily Kansan
Flea market draws buffs
By JENNIFER HOLT
Staff Reporter
It isn't only the 40 boots filled with furniture, jewelry, glassware, coins, stamps and clocks that set the antique at its height in the Strada's Fiea Market. It also the building.
In 1868, five years after the infamous raid by Quantrill on Lawrence, the building at 811 New Hampshire St. was rebuilt from a brick structure six years later, it houses, appropriately, antiques.
"It's a neat old building," said Max Humphrey, one of the antique dealers and collectors who rents a booth at Quantrill's. "It's been through a lot, especially a fire about two years ago that started on the seaside. The two booths were closed several weeks before."
Humbrey became involved in the antique business after leaving the Air Force in 1971, he said, when a round oak table spurred his interest in antiques.
"I KNEW NOTHING about antiques then," he said. "But when I came across a man who was about to throw away a good, solid oil table, I asked him for it.
"I refinished the table and it looked real nice. When people asked starting me if would sell it, it looked around to see what a table of its quality was going for. I sold it for $100, and that's when the antique-collecting company decided to rent to a booth at Quailville."
Humphrey said the antique business had changed in the past several years.
"It toiled at that I could get good, akel
auriture, but not so easy now," he saus. It
was a rather complicated task, the value of antiques than six or seven years ago. Antiques were once more janky.
"MOST PEOPLE associate flea markets with parking lots and cars. Actually there are good quality antiques here being sold by
professional people. One woman is a legal secretary, one man is a chemist, one a retired school superintendent and many KU students and graduates."
Besides furniture, Humphrey said, smaller items such as magazines, comic books, tin types, old cameras and jewelry were sold at the market.
Some of these items Humphrey buys from individuals who contact him. He also travels and "just hucks on to antiques," he said.
"This is a different kind of business, because you have to find the antiques personally. You can't just pick up the phone and go to an antique store, but many times you come back from exhurt."
CARMEN FRANANDO, a dealer at Quantrill's, agreed that there were fewer antiques currently on the market because of a greater demand.
Franoo started collecting antiques 20 years ago, she said. She then turned to dealing antiques and operated a shop in Ottawa, Canada, and the East Coast once a year to buy antiques.
However, she said she did not attend auctions as do the majority of dealers.
"Time-wise, it's not worth it," she said. "You're competing against the retail department that sells furniture. You wait around all day to buy a piece of furniture, for example, and someone outsides you."
GRANT HEWITT, a 1976 KU graduate who is now a microbiologist, rents a booth at Quanturil's. He said he primarily was in the business from the 30's and art by Maxfield Parkel.
He said that his mother buys and trades furniture and other items in his booth, his father refinishes them, and he and his sister tell them
Hewitt said he grew up with antiques.
"My folks were antique dealers and I slept in an antique bed," he said. "I think the TV
"I started working here my sophomore year at KU. My sister was a partner with me and it was and still is a perfect job, expectable for a student, because we work on it."
and the couch were the only things in the house that weren't antique.
Another KU student involved with the Fea market is Jim Coner, a senior majoring in accounting, who also is manager of Quantrill's.
COMER AGREED Quantrill's was a convenient place to work on weekends. he said he meets them from all over the county, especially on KU Parent's Day.
He explained that there was a waiting list for dealers who wanted to rent a booth in Quantrill's and that most of the dealers have worked in the market for years.
"I would say the character of the flea market has changed since it was opened," he said. "It was very informal then, people didn't know it, but now it's very successful and we now."
Booths are rented by the week, depending on size. from $12 to $$, he said.
The busiest time for booth-keepers is between September and Christmas, said Randy Davis, who leaves the building and rents the booths to dealers.
PATTER BAKY, of Overland Park, said,
"I like to shop here for Christmas presents
and ideas. You can almost lost in here,
there's so much to see."
and Liz Waters, an antique enthusiast from St. Louis, said Quantrill's was "just as good as any antique flea market in Kansas City."
Davis said, "I may be biased, but I think our flea market is nicer and cleaner than those in Kansas City. This is no second-hand store." And his colleagues as quiesces as much did "no go wrong here."
The flea market is open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays.
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Commissioner Schumm said he thought the idea of a recall vote was "totally ridiculous.
"BUT IF THEY can pull it off, more power to them. I am completely confident that we would win again." Schumm said. "I just need to get setting people know about it. It's so sour girls."
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"I feel my decision to vote against downzoning was 100 percent correct."
Schumm said he would rather study downzoning for the area on a section by section basis, as it will be done in the future.
The Oread neighborhood encompasses an area bordering the University from Massachusetts Street on the east, 17th Street on the west, and North Street on the north.
He said he thought people did not understand the Oread downdoning issue. Downzoning for the whole area would not be the best solution, he said, because the city is so large with a number of types of real estate ranging from single family homes to downtown businesses.
Commissioner Binns said he was not surprised by the recall suggestion.
"It won't come off," he said, "but if it does that's cray. I'm ready for it. I think I'd be elected."
COMMISSIONER CARTER was unavailable for comment.
In a referendum a public measure or stature is submitted to a direct popular vote. For example, if a community referendum would take a community-wide effect, he was planning to contact the other members.
Martin said that a recall might not be the answer, but that it was one of three options. He also said he would refer to citywide referendum on downwelling in the Orcad neighborhood or to wait until the next year.
"If it doesn't look like we can get the help we need, we will look at them. We'll be able to do all of them then," he said. "I'm usually not the type to get involved in issues, but something needs to be done."
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