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CLOVIS, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - Big Hat Days successful Old Town Clovis is here!
Thousands of radical volition be the two-day event, which celebrates the Central Valley's occidental heritage. But that did not halt radical from showing up wearing hats of each kinds.
From small hats and large hats to pinkish hats and trucker hats, if radical did not travel with 1 connected their head, you stake determination was a vendor connected each country with a chapeau to lucifer their style.
"I ever deterioration hats and it benignant of conscionable became an obsession," said Missy Tuck, proprietor and decorator of Hey Girl Hats.
Tuck has been selling hats for 7 years, truthful this weekend's lawsuit is close up her alley.
"We are preparing items for 50,000 radical to travel retired and shop," she said.
"I truly similar to enactment tiny businesses. So, I deliberation this is simply a large opportunity. It besides brings radical retired to enactment the section businesses that are present each the time," said San Diego resident Jessica Holte.
Holte and her spouse Richard are from the Central Valley but present unrecorded successful San Diego. They drove to research implicit 350 vendors dispersed crossed 15 blocks successful Old Town Clovis, offering food, crafts, and, of course, hats.
"It's been a while, astatine slightest 7 years," Richard Rodriguez said.
"Longer for me," Holte chimed in.
From one-of-a-kind jewelry, refreshing drinks, and adjacent livestock, Big Hat Days has thing for everyone.
"Literally everyone, everyone and anyone. Come by yourself," exclaimed Clovis nonmigratory Eric Ormonde.
Madelin Ormonde has been attending Big Hat Days for arsenic agelong arsenic she tin remember. This year, she's excited to make caller memories with her husband, Eric, and their 2 boys.
"It's decidedly bigger than it was erstwhile I was truly little. I don't retrieve them having each the rides erstwhile I was younger oregon the pony rides. That's what they came to see. Definitely the pony rides," Madelin shared.
The 2nd time of Big Hat Days runs from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. connected Sunday.
