Hundreds of people swarmed around booths and displays at the Sacramento Antique Faire. Every second Sunday, the faire brings this unassuming area of Sacramento to life.

A plethora of colorful jewelry, pots, pans, toys, books and records filled the crates of vendors who sat behind them with fans or guitars. A man behind a stack of Army memorabilia played soft Bob Dylan tunes under an old tattered straw hat.

“There’s a lot of old stuff out there,” retired banker and jewelry vendor Gretchen Swinson, 58, said. “I like that it’s covered. In the winter we can come out in the rain, in the summer we’ve got shade.”

People walked up and down aisle after aisle picking up knick-knacks from decades past, the remnants of an aunt’s attic or the last heirlooms of a great-grandfather, each piece of history with a long and complicated story.

“It’s a good crowd. I like the diversity of people here,” Clinton Watson, 37, said. He sells religious and industrial antiques.

The Sacramento Antique Faire is located under the overpass at the block bordered by 22nd, X, W and 23rd streets and is open from 6:30 a.m. - 3 p.m. every second Sunday of the month. For more information visit here.