Market
The Original Farmers Market
6333 W 3rd St, Los Angeles, CA 90036, USA
Open-air marketplace of independent food stalls and shops around a landmark clock tower, thriving since the Great Depression.
This guide to The Original Farmers Market in Los Angeles goes back to 1934, when the Fairfax district was a weedy vacant lot on the Gilmore family's old oil-drilled dairy ranch, deep in the Depression. It follows businessmen Fred Beck and Roger Dahlhjelm's pitch to landowner Earl Gilmore, letting farmers sell produce off their truck tailgates, and the roughly eighteen vendors who took them up on it that July. The guide traces how a curbside truck stop began turning into something more permanent within the year.
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