Here’s a video I made a while back for another non-Route 66 News project that didn’t materialize. It’s about the flea markets along Admiral Place (aka Route 66) in Tulsa.
This area is essentially two flea markets in the same area — the Great American Flea Market and the older Admiral Flea Market.
If I had to show a foreign visitor what the United States is like, I would take them to the flea markets on Admiral Place. It’s a bit messy, a bit chaotic, and it’s 100 percent free enterprise. You can get everything from farm produce to auto parts to hardware to pets to jeans to street tacos to tacky home decor. It’s a bonanza for bargain-hunters, blue-collar shoppers, and kitsch lovers.
And in case you’re wondering about the video segment showing the big sculpture of bowling balls, it’s the World Peace Monument. And, no, I’m not making this up, and neither is its creator.
It’s all part of the strange and wonderful atmosphere at those flea markets.
When I drove past there a week ago, the bowling ball peace monument had been dismantled. Has it been reconstructed inside, or is this an older photo?
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Laurel
When I was there, it was both inside and outside.
looks like the Old Paris Flea Market here in OKC.