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Collecting and Selling

Antique Avenue owner brings together 55 private vendors

Antique vendor Janet Dyk is seen with her heritage ice boxes and a pull out drawer style flour mill. The hand crank can be seen in the left foreground that was used to grind the wheat from a top drawer with the flour dropping through a screen and into the lower drawer in the wooden cabinet. - photo by GLENN KAHL

Castle-DSC 1171 — Antique vendor Janet Dyk is seen with her heritage ice boxes and a pull out drawer style flour mill. The hand crank can be seen in the left foreground that was used to grind the wheat from a top drawer with the flour dropping through a screen and into the lower drawer in the wooden cabinet. - photo by GLENN KAHL

One-time Manteca Police dispatcher Betty Castle has been a collector from the time she was a child. Today she runs the Antique Avenue mall in the former Big Boy Market building at Yosemite and Powers avenues. Castle has more than 55 private vendors who have rented space in her some 8,000-square-foot building that draws about 20,000 potential customers a year – mostly from outside of Manteca – searching for that one of a kind, unique item.

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