Oregon daily emerald., June 19, 1972, Section I, Page 9, Image 9

sitting down and taking it all in,
The best time for Saturday Market is in the summertime, according
to its manager M’Lou Zahner Carden.
“Summer is probably the best time for the market. The weather is
best then .. . and there are vegetables, fruit and flowers for sale,” she
says.
The Market, which is held from 10a.m. to 5p.m. each Saturday from
May to December, involves from 100 to 150 booths.
Craftsmen man the booths and sell photographs, candles, tapestries,
leather goods, drawings, sandwiches, fresh corn stalks, hand-made
flutes, rugs, sandals and puppets.
The Market is located on the Lane County parking lot across the
street from the county court house downtown.
Saturday Market is a nice way to spend a Saturday afternoon, for
craftsmen who display or for those who come to look and possibly buy,
according to Carden.
“I feel a lot of people have been frightened by the label ‘counter
culture’—some straights I know are even afraid to walk all the way
down Willamette. We don’t want this Market labeled ‘counter-culture.’
We like to think of it as a bridge between cultures. A place where
differences are dissolved,” she says.
The Market is run with little cost. The management requires per
sons setting up booths to pay a $1.50 registration fee each Saturday.
The money is spent to cover legal fees, parking lot rental, salaries for
the manager and assistant manager, insurance, garbage, stationery,
ropes and other equipment.
“Saturday Market is a gathering together of everybody. One of the
only places people can come and feel relaxed,” Carden says.
The variety of wares at the Market is rivaled only by the variety of
shoppers and lookers-on. Children four and five years old, senior
citizens, middle-aged businessmen, Eugene police officers off duty but
still in uniform, students—they all come to the Market to see the
wares.
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Photo* by Nick Lacy
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. . . and relaxing.