Vintage collectors from all corners of Canada gathered at Assiniboia Downs Saturday to shop and show off a variety of trinkets and treasures.
The Grand Trunk Nostalgia Club held its semi-annual vintage and collectible sale, with more than 100 vendors from Ontario, Saskatchewan, Manitoba and Alberta.
“The reality is if you collect licence plates, if you collect cups and saucers, if you collect home and oil lamps, or things like animals or vegetables driving vehicles on a postcard, this is a place to be,” said Mike Huen, the event’s co-organizer.
Huen said the sale gives people a chance to check out items frozen in time – allowing them to relive childhood and family memories.
“I get people coming in here all the time, ‘Oh, remember this?’ Or, ‘Remember mom used to have this,’ or ‘Grandpa needs to have that,’” recalled Huen. “They’ll look at something to get that warm, fuzzy …