The Brimfield Antiques Show began in the 1950's and has become the largest and best-know antiques show in the country. Brimfield is a quaint, picturesque rural New England town, home to 3,000 residents. During show-times, the town's population balloons to over 30,000 visitors and over 5,000 dealers for the 6 days the Show operates.
Dealers come from all over the world as do visitors.
From millionaire world-famous rock stars, to the mason down the street, the Show is a Mecca for serious and casual collectors of all kinds of antiques. Also, in the middle of the show, the New England Motel hosts the largest and most popular food court with a wide variety of food booths to satisfy every taste. Additionally, food carts and booths appear throughout various locations and the wide variety of available foods has become a draw in it's own right. Each of the fields is required to provide sanitary facilities, and these are most often clean, ventilated affairs that are checked often for a sanitary condition. By far the largest inconvenience to the whole show is the traffic getting into and out of town, which can range from none to over 5 miles of backup.