During West Seattle’s massive annual garage sale—a single-day spectacular in early May, when more than 500 yards, front paths, and driveways open for business en masse—the neighborhood looks oddly vulnerable. Like all its homes have spilled their guts onto their front yards. Or like they’re wearing their hearts on their sleeves.
West Seattle isn’t the only neighborhood with this kind of ad hoc vintage market. Capitol Hill hosts a community-wide garage sale, concentrated in Cal Anderson Park, every summer; plenty of others, from Mount Baker to Maple Leaf, follow suit. But West Seattle’s is uniquely massive, sprawling more than six miles from the northernmost tip of Alki Beach to
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