The Highway 127 Corridor Sale (a.k.a. 127 Yard Sale) is an outdoor second-hand sale held annually for four days beginning the first Thursday in August along U.S. Route 127 (US 127). The event has been promoted as "The World's Longest Yard Sale."
The original idea came from Fentress County, Tennessee county executive Mike Walker, and was established in 1987. When it began, the sale route followed US 127 from Covington, Kentucky to Chattanooga, Tennessee. A few years after the event was established, the Lookout Mountain Parkway was added to the route, extending it from Chattanooga southward through northwestern Georgia and northeastern Alabama to Gadsden, Alabama. In 2007, the route was extended northward from Covington, through Ohio to the Michigan border, making its last major stops around Bryan, Ohio and points northward. In 2010, the sale was extended northward to Hudson, Michigan. In 2012, it was extended again to 5 miles north of Addison, Michigan, totaling an approximate end-to-end distance of 690 miles.
The event has been featured on HGTV.
Famous quotes containing the words corridor and/or sale:
“And now in one hour’s time I’ll be out there again. I’ll raise my eyes and look down that corridor four feet wide with ten lonely seconds to justify my whole existence.”
—Colin Welland (b. 1934)
“People buy their necessities in shops and have to pay dearly for them because they have to assist in paying for what is also on sale there but only rarely finds purchasers: the luxury and amusement goods. So it is that luxury continually imposes a tax on the simple people who have to do without it.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)