Everything was looking up when, in 1987, panic struck: The swap meet was losing its lease and had 90 days to leave to make way for retail space — today, a Target and an Albertsons sit where the swap meet once was.
Scrambling, the family looked south. The name would stay, but the swap meet’s new home would be 33 acres on South Palo Verde Road. They hung on to hope that the sellers — and the buyers — would follow them.
It wasn’t always easy. “Our business fell off there,” says Solberg.
