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June 21, 2008
 
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Greek Revival Victorian in pale yellow, white and forest green trim    A row of Victorian homes on the west side of Kenyon Street

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For 2008, the West End Civic Association is planning a neighborhood-wide tag sale.  
Contact Dore Thomas at 231-8259.  It's on 
June 21, 2008:

 

 

Our Kenyon annual tag sale is usually on Rose Weekend which is June 20 and 22, 2008.

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Annual Tag Sale '07       Recycling Options        '06 Tag Sale Photo Journal      Logistics  

 

West End Tags  Click up arrow to go to top.
Last year:

 June 23 and 24, 2007  
Sat., June 23     9  - 2
Sun., June 24    10 - 3

When:

The first block of Kenyon Street in the West End of Hartford will hold a neighborhood tag sale on Saturday, June 23, and Sunday, June 24, 2007.  The hours are from 9 a.m. until 2 p.m. on Saturday, and 10:00 a.m. until 3 p.m. on Sunday.   In the event of light rain, sales will be held from porches.  Sales cancelled in the event of thunderstorm.
We're hoping to expand the event throughout the neighborhood!


What:

Several families will be participating on the block.  Each is responsible for their own sales.   

Partial list to date:

  • Eastlake Victorian dresser and mirror for $200

  • refrigerator

  • new unframed prints, 

  • 3’ lighthouse for birds

  • household items

  • furniture

  • electronics
    On Sunday only:

  • baby items including cribs, toys, high chairs 

  • records (1970s and 1980s) 

  • kitchen goods

 

Directions:

Kenyon Street is located off of I-84, Exit 46 (Sisson Avenue) just north of Farmington Avenue at Kinkos-FedEx (Tisane and Ichiban).   It is 5 blocks from the West Hartford line.  Our block stretches between Farmington Ave. and Fern Street.  

From the bottom of Exit # 46, turn right on to Sisson Avenue.  Go to the end, and turn left onto Farmington Avenue.  Go 2 blocks and turn right onto Kenyon Street (between Ichiban Restaurant and Kinko's-FedEx).

 

See you there!

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Recycling Options  Click up arrow to go to top.   

            Hartford Waste & Recycling Division

Electronics Recycling:   (CRRA)
                        click for other locations
when: Saturday, June 28, 2008, 9 a.m.-1 p.m.,   
where: 141 Sheldon St. municipal lot, Hartford
for whom: Residents of Mid-Connecticut Project cities and towns
what: Home electronics, including: computers, monitors, cell phones, 
TVs, VCRs, copiers, fax machines, printers, radios, stereos. 
(Electronics from businesses and institutions are not acceptable. )

Household Hazardous Waste Recycling:   (DEP)
                       click for other locations
when: Saturday, June 14, 2008, 8 a.m.-1 p.m.
where: Lewis Fox Middle School, Albany Ave. and Blue Hills Ave.
when: Saturday, October 25, 2008, 8 a.m.-1 p.m.
where: MDC Water treatment Plant: 240 Brainard Road.
for whom: Hartford residents
what: See list  

Other Stuff:
freecycle.org
donate list 
Dress for Success
Hartford bulky waste pick-up: 543-8750

 

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Photo Journal - 2006  Click up arrow to go to top.

It's June 3, 2006, 9 AM.  Heavy rain is predicted for most of the day.   Bad Break!

A hand lettered sign announces the Kenyon Street Tag Sale


However, the e-mails fly, and most everyone is determined to 
hold the sale from their front porch.

A seller waits on her porch - ready for customers


It doesn't take long for customers to arrive.

Lots of shoppers at the Kenyon Street Tag Sale


They don't seem to mind the climb on the 'heights' side of Kenyon Heights.

View of shoppers on a porch with a row of homes in the distance


Turns out, our porches are the perfect spot for commerce,
as well as conversation.

Shopper hunting for books.     Friends enjoy a visit on the porch hung with nasturtiums in hanging baskets


I counted fourteen of the thirty-two homes holding a tag sale.  
(One - who shall go unnamed, found the prospect
of dealing with the rain too daunting - or maybe it was schlepping the weights up from the basement.)

Buyers paying up    Shoppers step off the porch with their treasures


Victoria claimed to be doing a land-office business. 
It turns out, we may be among the few actually holding a tag sale in the rain, 
so people show up!
(We think Victoria is under pricing her brown leather couch.)

Shoppers in the rain with rhodos in full bloom beyond   


Where else can you find a Christmas cactus in a toilet?  

Items lined up against an antique black iron fence.    This neighbor is selling from his garage  


Or someone to buy your old sewer pipe?

Customer loads an old sewer pipe into her trunk with full-blooming rhodos in the background


John gets the award for best garage for a tag sale - great lighting.  

Goodies for sale in John's award-winning garage   Wicker, curio cabinet, glass table for sale


And the most historic item (1890 coal stove).

Picture of 1890 coal stove for sale


He even discovers
one of his customers is his old math teacher from Bulkley High.

Buyers under the umbrella


Neighbors catch up - Carol and Meg have a date for the brass concert (August 6)

Friends chat off the side of a lavender Queen Anne porch   A pro hunts for goodies while owners give a wave.


Kimberly sells a few items that were freebies from the start.

Checking out the merchandise.  Selling extras to make room for more from her porch on the hill


But she bought Matt's chair - so it could be a wash.

Owner with dog carrier sits on porch steps


Mary and Nancy are hoping for the perfect customer - someone with twins.

Customers with kids looking for bargins


Toni has a great kneeling office chair, and 
a brand new mirrored bath cupboard.  

"There's more inside"     Relaxing on the porch with three hanging baskets


Patty's porch looks as pretty as a shop display.

Each house selling has a balloon   Selling new merchandise


Fi hauled everything out herself.


And had the most creative advertising.  
The 'Featured' items were hung on the shrubs like laundry.

Hanging the advertising from the shrubery


A fine toboggan and classic flexible flyer are still available at Martha and Dave's.

    Martha selling a tobaggon


The customers look happy. 

One happy customer   Young couple looking for treasures

Woman walking down Kenyon Street with shelving    Woman posing with bargin of a bike.


We look happy.


Some of us made room for more stuff.    

Colorful tented bike carriage for sale


Some of us made more room for ourselves.

Making room for more  


But all of us made room for some extra cash.

Happy seller with money


Now that we know porches are tailor-made for a tag sale, 
John has a great idea - 
A tag sale every year, that expands 
to the rest of Kenyon Street, then on throughout the whole Westend.
Our own little Brimfield!

    Volunteer to organize next year's sale!

John has (reluctantly?) agreed to coordinate it.


See you in 2007!

Lovely rhodo in bloom

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Logistics Schedule:  Click up arrow to go to top.

West End Tags is an annual event of tag sales held on the first block of Kenyon Street
on Rose Weekend - usually the third weekend in June.  
Kenyon hopes other blocks throughout the West End will do the same to make it an annual neighborhood event.

 

Click to see the schedule Kenyon Street follows for its event.  Planning starts in December.   Click arrow for next page.

 

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