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Main Street Waterloo seeks dealers for new Iowa antique show

Tom Hoepf
Tom Hoepf

WATERLOO, Iowa – Main Street Waterloo is seeking dealers for a new antique and collectors show, entitled At the Crossing Antique Fair. The show will take place Saturday, Oct. 16 at the downtown 5 Sullivan Brothers Convention Center from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Admission is $3 per person, children 13 and under will be admitted free.

Main Street Waterloo invites visitors to travel back to a time when Waterloo was called Prairie Rapids Crossing, when all roads led to Waterloo to cross the Cedar River.

As part of the antique fair, Sherryl Newton, GIA Graduate Gemologist and longtime doll collector, will be appraising showgoers’ jewelry and dolls for only $5 an item.

“I’m a trained gemologist, and my family owned jewelry stores all over Iowa for over 60 years. I have also collected dolls since the early ’80s,” said Newton.

Contracts for participating at the show can be downloaded at www.mainstreetwaterloo.org or by contacting the Main Street Waterloo office (329 E. Fourth St.) at 319-291-2038.

Proceeds from the antique fair will help support Main Street Waterloo, a private-public partnership dedicated to the revitalization of the city’s downtown center utilizing the Main Street approach.

Waterloo became a Main Street community in 1996, when Cedar Skyline Corp., the UpDowntowners, Waterloo Downtown Council, and the Waterloo Redevelopment Authority were combined into a single entity under the umbrella of Main Street Waterloo. Main Street Waterloo is an affiliate of the Main Street Iowa program, using the National Main Street Center’s “Four Point Approach” to downtown revitalization. The program stresses a public-private partnership and is utilized by nearly 2,000 communities in 42 states. Using this approach, 33 Iowa downtowns are working to strengthen the overall social and economic health of their central business districts, and re-establish their commercial districts as the community focal point and center of activity. Main Street Waterloo receives its funding from donations, rents collected, grants, sponsorships and revenue from events.