Flea Market of Norfolk — Attraction in Norfolk

I've seen the Flea Market in search results for a few years. I finally decided to make the 40-minute drive and look for cool things for the new apartment. I can't express how disappointed I was. The road leading in and the parking lot were so unkempt and degraded. The flea market is filthy and rickety. Though a few of the vendors were welcoming, most were indifferent and appeared as if they hated being there. Entitled people blocked the single lane through the parking lot 3 times to ask vendors questions rather than parking and approaching the booths. Each person who blocked traffic behind them either ignored the cars honking behind them or cussed the drivers behind them out for honking. It was pretty tense all 3 times, and not once did any type of security show up to control traffic flow. I was there for about 20 minutes and couldn't find any way to approach all the booths except 2. There was simply no way to roll my wheelchair up to any of those other booths since it's gravel, mud, and grass. It is extremely disappointing not to be able to explore the vendors and feel unsafe in the parking lot. I don't mind visiting run-down flea markets, but usually, I can access vendors in my wheelchair and vendor stalls aren't crumbling down. I suppose if I had working legs, I might have enjoyed it better, but then again, with the tensions in the parking lot, lack of accessibility, and delapidated vendor...

I've gone to many flea markets over the years all over the east coast, some amazing ones, some that were only ok, but I had a good time. So I don't say this lightly when I tell you this is the most trashy, run down garbage heap of a flea market I have ever gone to. I am not exaggerating in the slightest. This place is disgusting. The vendors consisted of selling bootleg products, tools that looks like they were stored in a puddle, half the stuff being sold look like items that were too gross to donate to goodwill. Most of the buildings are held together by mismatched planks, pallets and tarps. Uneven ground with pieces of plyboard and cardboard covering puddles. That place, is how you get bedbugs. I say this with my full chest when I say the only fixing that market is with a bulldozer. I hope no one is paying to vend there, because if you are, you are...

This is an absolutely horrid place. It is not only located in a seedy section of Norfolk but is justly populated. The old saying "Never judge a book by its cover" does not apply to this place. I suggest you try to find another flea market instead. I spent a half hour there and while looking around the few tables that were open, I was notified by one seller that she recently got pulled over for a DUI and needed to sell second hand toys to pay restitution to the courts and while leaving, I was informed by a "seller" that he had all the latest movies from the theaters including Jurassic World on DVD for $1 a piece even though I saw at least a dozen signs stating that bootlegging any DVDs and selling them there was a crime.

Seriously, avoid this place...