May 26—ROCHESTER — People are invited to indulge in some nostalgia and nerdiness this weekend. Midwest Vintage Toys is hosting a free vintage swap meet Saturday, May 31, 2025. The daylong event will ...

Gerardo Pichardo used to set out his electronics and Amazon overstock products for sale in an indoor space at the Santa Fe Springs Swap Meet. But after a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement raid ...

When computers were the sort of thing you ordered from a catalog and soldered together in your garage, swap meets were an invaluable way of exchanging not just hardware and software, but information.

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Jake Scharpen, store manager at Midwest Vintage Toys in Rochester, works behind the counter Sunday, May 25, 2025. A display cabinet of vintage Star Wars action figures is in the foreground. Scharpen ...