PEA RIDGE — Flea Market Plus at the corner of West Pickens Road and North Curtis Avenue in Pea Ridge opened Sept. 1 and business has been booming ever since.
The building housing the flea market is actually seven buildings in the heart of the historic downtown district. Over the past eight decades, the buildings have housed numerous businesses including a hardware store, a grocery store, a cafe, a barber shop and the post office.
“It’s a great location, location is everything,” said Angela Canard, one of the business’ owners, along with her husband Gary and Roy Rogers.
“I’ve worked at retail stores and flea markets. I was going to go to Cassville, (Mo.) but then found this place,” she said.
Canard is from Newport, Ark., but lived in Rogers for six yearsbefore moving to Pea Ridge to start the business.
“It’s a family operation, I love it,” she said.
The flea market is one of five stops on the Pea Ridge Historical Society’s Tour of Homes this year.
Canard rents booths to sellers and keeps a percentage of the sales. Rental prices vary by booth size.
She said business has been so good, they have already had to add more booths.
The market sells anything from baby clothes to antique furniture to cookie jars.
“There was a gentleman in Rogers who died in August. He had some antique fishing reels and they are for sale here now. The family had a hard time bringing the stuff to sell ... but he enjoyed doing that and now someone else can enjoy it if you sell it,” Canard said.
The flea market is open seven days a week, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday and noon to 6 p.m. Sunday.
It is located at 105 W.
Pickens Rd.
HISTORY OF BUILDINGS
◊1928 Dry Goods Store 1935-1956 Luther Martin Grocery 1956 Ropers Grocery 1963 Easleys White’s Auto Store
◊1929 Barber Shop 1935 Barber George Gates 1965 Easleys White’s Auto Store
◊1930 Post Office 1958 Appliance,TV, shoe stores... 1979 Easleys White’s Auto Store
◊1946 Patterson Dry Goods run by Eva Patterson 1963 Roper Grocery Store1979 Easleys White’s Auto Store
◊1946 Plumbing store/laundry/cafe 1980 Easleys White’s Auto Store
◊1958 Post Office built by Max Walker and Stanley Buttry 1980 Easleys White’s Auto Store
Editor’s note: This is a partial listing of owners and occupants. A more complete listing will be on view during the homes tour and more information can be found in the Pea Ridge sequiscentennial book, available for purchase at the Pea Ridge Historical Museum.
News, Pages 1 on 12/01/2010