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Saturday<br />
Market<br />
A Hip Eugene Tradition<br />
By Therese Burchell<br />
Photographs By Tristen Knight<br />
Above: People gather to listen to the entertainment and enjoy the market’s food.<br />
Top right: Shopper looks through photography.<br />
If you want to experience<br />
an intrinsic part <strong>of</strong> Eugene,<br />
get over to the Saturday<br />
Market, located at Eighth<br />
and Oak streets in downtown<br />
Eugene. Open every Saturday<br />
from 10 am to 5 pm, the<br />
Saturday Market is America’s<br />
oldest open-air market and one<br />
<strong>of</strong> the best ways to get a sense<br />
<strong>of</strong> what Eugene is like with<br />
its hair down--literally. Long a<br />
local favorite for people-watching,<br />
the Saturday Market is a<br />
unique and popular gatheringplace.<br />
Spread across two and a<br />
half city blocks, the Saturday<br />
Market transforms the open<br />
space next to City Hall into<br />
an outdoor marketplace that<br />
includes a food court and<br />
entertainment stage. Over two<br />
hundred booths contain various<br />
handmade items for sale,<br />
including jewelry (spectacular<br />
selection,) body care products<br />
(incredible choice in soaps,)<br />
all kinds <strong>of</strong> clothing (tie-dye,<br />
batik, hand painted, and/or woven,)<br />
leather goods, and face<br />
painting, to name but a few.<br />
Here is the real appeal<br />
<strong>of</strong> the Saturday Market: the<br />
maker <strong>of</strong> the product, (or a<br />
member <strong>of</strong> that maker’s family,)<br />
sells all <strong>of</strong> these colorful<br />
items to you directly. If you<br />
have any questions about a<br />
product or enjoy haggling a<br />
deal, the Saturday Market is
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