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66 to Front Royal if she had not started a mail-order buriness J and expanded her furniture line.
“We've had people come here from the city and buy a truckload of furniture,” she said. Swindler added that the location of her shop. Parkway, and the Emporium all in Sperryville helps all three.
“There's enough here for people to make a special trip," she said. Also, she said that it is essential to serve the local buyers as well as tourists passing through.
Steve DeMent of Fairlawn Antiques said that, after a slow start, his business has picked up enormously in July and August. “We’re doing normal - and that means heavy - business,” DeMent said.
"We’re serving six hundred people a day, now.” DeMent said that he thinks people have adjusted to high gas prices and are not afraid of a gas shortage.
DeMent said that his business may suffer less from the easier traffic flow to Front Royal because a lot of his customers make a trip specifically to visit his large antique business.
DeMent added that his customers are a little different from his usual ones and fewer spend money. “But the ones that do, seem to spend more,” he said.
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