LA This Week: 8 Places Worth Going

The second Sunday of the month lands on October 11th, which is the one date that reorganises everything around it. Rose Bowl comes back, the Roadium turns its vendor mix over for the two days before it, and Saturday fills up with four separate reasons to be somewhere else. Here is the whole week, with the hours and the addresses.

Roadium Vintage Days runs Thursday the 8th and Friday the 9th at 2500 W Redondo Beach Blvd in Torrance, 7am to 3pm both days. The Roadium is open every day; Vintage Days is the vendor mix tipping toward vintage clothing and accessories for the Thursday and Friday before each second Sunday. It is the quieter end of the week and it rewards a slower walk through the stalls.

LA Vintage Rendezvous takes the Glendale Civic Auditorium at 1401 N Verdugo Rd on Friday the 9th and Saturday the 10th. Friday, 11am to 4pm, is an early preview at $100 that covers both days. Saturday, 10am to 4pm, is $10 general entry. Cash only at the door, no tickets online. True vintage clothing and Americana, indoors, with the dealers who bring the good rails.

Saturday the 10th starts early. The LA Vintage Warehouse Sale opens at 7am at 13003 S Figueroa St and runs to 3pm, sold by the pound with staggered entry times. Warehouse sales reward people willing to dig, less styled presentation and more volume.

Silverlake Flea opens at 9am at 1900 N Vermont Ave, running to 3:30pm, and does it again Sunday at the same hours. It is smaller and more specific than the big fleas, leaning into '90s and Y2K. If baggy denim and old band tees are the target, this is the targeted stop.

Los Feliz Flea opens at 11am at 1030 Alpine St and runs to 5pm. It sets up on the Vintage Land roof by Chinatown, the only rooftop flea in the city, with vendors across vintage clothing, antiques, vinyl and local designers. The rooftop pulls out people dressed for being seen, not just for shopping.

The LA Fashion Week Runway Show & Pop Up closes Saturday at 801 Mateo St in the Arts District, 7pm to 9:30pm. A ticketed runway does not always translate to street style worth chasing, but a Mateo Street room on a Saturday night usually means a crowd dressed for the occasion.

Sunday is the one to plan around. Rose Bowl Flea Market returns to 1001 Rose Bowl Dr in Pasadena, general admission from 9am, VIP entry from 5am to 8:45am. More than 2,500 vendors, running on the second Sunday of every month since 1968.

Melrose Trading Post keeps its usual slot the same morning, 10am to 5pm at Fairfax High School, 7850 Melrose Ave. Vintage clothing, handmade goods, art and antiques, with the gate money going to the school's arts programs. It is an easy second stop after Pasadena, if the energy holds.

Eight places, two of them on both Saturday and Sunday. Saturday is the crowded one and Sunday is the big one.