Special Community Sales
In some areas, garage sales have taken on a special meaning to a community and have become events of special local significance: large areas of a community then hold a communal garage sale involving dozens or hundreds of families at the same time.
The Highway 127 Corridor Sale, promoted as "The World's Longest Yard Sale," encourages private individuals and professional vendors to conduct simultaneous yard sales along a 630-mile (1,010 km) corridor spanning five U.S. states.
Running east to west, the Coast-to-Coast yard sale runs along US 50 in May of each year. Though not as popular as "The World's Longest Yard Sale", the US 50 Coast-to-Coast sale is in its eleventh year.
During the second Saturday in August, a 50 mi stretch of U.S. Route 11 becomes a continuous yard sale that at Stephens City, Virginia's Newtown Commons south to New Market, Virginia. The event, in its ninth year, is sponsored by the Shenandoah County Chamber Advisory Group, five chambers of commerce, and two town governments. In years past, the Yard Crawl has attracted people from as far away as Canada.
In Bondi Beach, Australia the first Garage Sale Trail took place as part of the Sizzle Bondi Community Festival on May 9, 2010. 126 garage sales occurred simultaneously. The Garage Sale Trail was designed to deal with the community's concern over illegal dumping Since the first event, the Garage Sale Trail has won a Green Globes award for Media Excellence, and the Wentworth Courier's Business Achiever award. In July 2010, organisers of the Garage Sale Trail announced their intention to take the Garage Sale Trail national and involve thirty local councils across Australia's states and territories potentially making it the largest garage sale in the world. Informal sales also occur across the country. One such example is in the Bismarck-Mandan area. Coinciding with the United Tribes International Pow-wow, it is tradition for the weekend following Labor Day to be the area's biggest garage sale weekend due to the influx of visitors in the area. On any given year, total garage sales number at least 500, while Bismarck surpasses Fargo, North Dakota as the state's largest city. The only state event that is bigger, is the North Dakota State Fair held in Minot, North Dakota during the last week of July.
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