Got a yen for yesteryear?

RIDGEFIELD — Squatting beside a shelf of vintage boxes and old ledgers, Terry Owenby pulled out a worn scrapbook at the Junk Bonanza at the Clark County Event Center at the Fairgrounds on Saturday.

“Oh wow,” the Portland resident murmured as she opened the scrapbook.

Faded flowers, ferns and feathers were pressed wafer-thin between the pages, across from which someone long ago had scrawled in pencil, “Winter 1889.”

“I look for the old stuff that has the history behind it,” said Owenby, 62, who likes to use handwritten records for the mixed-media collages she creates.

The scrapbook had come from the personal collection of Melanie Corson, who owns the vintage shop All My Favorite Things in Stars Antique Mall in Portland.

Corson was among the 65 vendors at the Junk Bonanza, which began Friday and ends at 4 p.m. Sunday. This weekend’s show in Clark County is only the second time Junk Bonanza has been held outside of Minneapolis, where two shows per year feature more than 150 vendors and draw more than 10,000 visitors from around the United States. Junk Bonanza was founded in 2006 by Ki Nassauer.

Select vendors, mostly from the Pacific Northwest, were personally invited to Clark County’s juried show, which sells “cast-off and vintage finds, antiques, architectural salvage and artisan-repurposed and handmade goods,” according to a press release. No reproductions are allowed, and items are supposed to be at least 40 years old.

“We have been just thrilled with the quality of the vendors in the Pacific Northwest,” said Kim Yeager, Junk Bonanza’s marketing and communication director. “They know their junk.”

Many dealers from the Oregon and Washington coasts shopped at Junk Bonanza this weekend to find wares for their stores, she said, adding that if all goes well, Junk Bonanza will return to Clark County next October.

Saturday, scores of people wandered among booths stocked with a mind-boggling array of goods priced from $1 to more than $400. There were piles of soft, hand-stitched quilts and yellowing tea towels. Satin ballet pointe-shoes were mounded in a French flower basket. A 1920s miniature girdle/corset mannequin was priced at $328 next to a $98 pair of high-heeled Victorian boots.

There were old typewriters and fragile, gossamer dresses, crystal cake stands and Jadeite mixing bowls, a black Victorian mourning cape, rabbit fur coats and a $310 electric-blue tin pedal car. A box held $1 vintage postcards, their backs inscribed with fading cursive and postmarked with dates from the early 1900s. There were hard-sided suitcases, battered baby dolls with blinking eyes, silver candelabras and snow shoes with leather straps. Small bins held piles of keys from old cash registers and typewriters, empty watch cases, cow tags stamped with numbers, and brass skeleton keys.

At the Orange Crush Exports booth from Tacoma, Paul Williams of Portland poked through racks of loud, retro men’s shirts. Williams, 33, tried on a garishly embroidered shirt that, to his disappointment, was too small.

“Sometimes they just call you,” he said with a grin.

Filmy dresses and lacy tops sewn from old tablecloths and textiles filled Jo Marie Richman’s booth, Rose-Marie Designs. Richman, from Langley on Whidbey Island, began sewing at age 6 and worked in the garment industry for years.

“Every day is a play day because I love what I do,” she said.

Troutdale, Ore., residents Josh Jensen, 38, and his mother, Debbie Jensen, 64, bought a set of four interconnected bread pans in which they would plant small cacti. They also found a wire egg crate for Debbie Jensen’s yarn and a rusting Radio Flyer wagon. Josh Jensen, who makes metal art, said he intends to cut the wagon in half lengthwise and mount it on a children’s bathroom wall above the towel rack.

“They’ve got some good stuff here,” he said.

His mother agreed.

“The prices are decent. If you were to go to Portland — much higher,” she said. “This is just fun, under one roof, to find so many ideas.”