rkot c°ntinueti fr°m Page ,3 The Saturday Market has been as mobile as many of the merchants who sell their wares there and at other fairs and craft shows around the West. When the market began in 1969. it was located under the [’arcade building. Moore said, then it moved to the comer of Eighth Avenue and Oak Street under the flagpoles in front of the lane County Courthouse. Before it was moved to its pre sent location straddling Oak Street between Eighth and Ninth avenues, it was held in the parking lot directly across Oak Street from the courthouse. Between 85 to 125 merchants set up shop at the market each weekend, said Margo Schaefer, the market’s publicity and entertainment director. Over the course of a summer, as many as 500 different vendors will have set up a booth at the market at least once, she said. The market has a definite im pact on the economy of the downtown area, Moore said. An urban planning study done in the late 1970s showed that 60 percent of the people who visit the downtown area on a weekend come mainly for the market. Another statistic cited by Schaefer from a recent study reveals that 22 percent of the people who visit lane County will go to the market — not bad for an event that takes place on ly once a week, she said. The Saturday Market Associa tion is funded solely by a yearly membership fee each vendor must pay and the daily booth fee of $5 plus 10 percent of the vendor's revenues, Schaefer said. A membership costs $7.50. and a booth can be reserved for $15 per month. A stable loca tion is something merchants value greatly because customers learn where merchants are and will return weekend after weekend, Shaefer said. Hut while merchants enjoy the market’s relaxed at mosphere. they agree that sell ing crafts at the market isn't always the easiest way to make ends meet. Most but not all rely on some other means of income for a living and use the market as a supplementary source of money. Former market director Moore teaches math and business at Lane Community College but said he must both teach and sell his work at the market to make a living. Dave Berggren, a potter who lives in Santa Clara and who got his start at the EMU Craft Center 10 years ago, said in addition to selling his pottery at the market, he has a full-time contract mak ing ceramic bread pans with Planned Pottery, which is PRE-SEASON TUNE UP Includes Hat tiling, custom wet belting, base repair & hot waxing 5995 9