Address | 13963 Alondra Blvd
[1] Santa Fe Springs, California United States |
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Website | |
sfsswapmeet |
The Santa Fe Springs Swap Meet is a flea market and music venue in Santa Fe Springs, California. [2] [3] It predominantly caters to Mexican Americans and Chicano culture, [4] selling food and beverages, art, clothing, household goods, and more unusual products. [5] [6] As a music venue, the Swap Meet is largely known for featuring tribute acts, [7] [8] but also features shows by prominent Latin music groups and other well-known musicians. [9]
After being founded as a drive-in theater in the 1940s, the Swap Meet eventually transitioned into the flea market that it is today. It has since built up a dedicated following of Southern California residents. [1]
In 2006, the Swap Meet was subject to a police raid to seize potentially hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of counterfeit consumer goods. [12] In 2016, the site became host to illegal street racing, following which a threatening young street racer was shot by California Highway Patrol. [13]
On October 17, 2014, forty-three-year old Elizabeth Yanez was stabbed to death in the site's parking lot by twenty-two-year old Reggie Cervantes. [14] The two had gotten into a verbal confrontation over a parking space, which came to involve Yanez's two adult children and a companion of Cervantes. [15] Charges against this second co-defendant, nineteen year old Brenda Rangel, were subsequently dropped, [16] and Cervantes was convicted of voluntary manslaughter. [17] He was sentenced to thirteen years in state prison in January 2016. [18]
Address | 13963 Alondra Blvd
[1] Santa Fe Springs, California United States |
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Website | |
sfsswapmeet |
The Santa Fe Springs Swap Meet is a flea market and music venue in Santa Fe Springs, California. [2] [3] It predominantly caters to Mexican Americans and Chicano culture, [4] selling food and beverages, art, clothing, household goods, and more unusual products. [5] [6] As a music venue, the Swap Meet is largely known for featuring tribute acts, [7] [8] but also features shows by prominent Latin music groups and other well-known musicians. [9]
After being founded as a drive-in theater in the 1940s, the Swap Meet eventually transitioned into the flea market that it is today. It has since built up a dedicated following of Southern California residents. [1]
In 2006, the Swap Meet was subject to a police raid to seize potentially hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of counterfeit consumer goods. [12] In 2016, the site became host to illegal street racing, following which a threatening young street racer was shot by California Highway Patrol. [13]
On October 17, 2014, forty-three-year old Elizabeth Yanez was stabbed to death in the site's parking lot by twenty-two-year old Reggie Cervantes. [14] The two had gotten into a verbal confrontation over a parking space, which came to involve Yanez's two adult children and a companion of Cervantes. [15] Charges against this second co-defendant, nineteen year old Brenda Rangel, were subsequently dropped, [16] and Cervantes was convicted of voluntary manslaughter. [17] He was sentenced to thirteen years in state prison in January 2016. [18]