Why Country Antique Fair Mall matters.
Country Antique Fair Mall is a storied antique marketplace where Saugus's collecting culture meets nearly half a century of independent dealers, vintage objects and a multigenerational business built around the early antique-mall model.
Set along Golden Triangle Road near Soledad Canyon Road and just steps from the commercial blocks surrounding Centre Pointe Parkway, the antique mall occupies Central Saugus between Bouquet Canyon, the Santa Clara River corridor and the foothills rising toward Plum Canyon, with Railroad Avenue tracing the valley floor west toward Valencia and the Sierra Pelona foothills enclosing the broader valley to the north. The 14,000-square-foot interior divides into 100 dealer spaces, turning a single building into a dense sequence of individually assembled collections. Furniture, glassware, jewelry, toys, records, artwork and domestic objects make browsing the primary encounter, with individual booths changing character according to each dealer's specialty. Period pieces and smaller collectibles create a secondary layer of discovery in which objects separated by decades appear within adjoining displays. The result is an antique mall whose scale, compartmentalized dealer spaces and constantly changing inventory preserve the exploratory character that has sustained the business since 1979.
What defines Country Antique Fair Mall.
Country Antique Fair Mall is best known for opening on July 21, 1979 as an early adopter of the antique-mall format, allowing independent dealers to maintain permanent selling spaces under one roof. The original configuration accommodated 55 dealers before a 1985 expansion substantially increased its capacity and established the large-format marketplace that followed. By 1994, 105 booths filled the building with material ranging from Victorian furniture and Franciscan china to nineteenth-century kitchen implements, cowboy memorabilia and Indonesian carvings. The surrounding Santa Clarita Valley eventually supported 13 antique shops, yet Country Antique Fair Mall survived as the last of that larger group by its fortieth anniversary in 2019. Owner Mac McClure had spent more than three decades with the business by 2023, when he, son Jesse McClure and their wives assumed full ownership. Jesse grew up around the family business before developing his own career buying and selling collectibles, making the eventual transfer a generational continuation of the mall's collecting culture. Longtime dealers reinforce that continuity, with some sellers remaining from the mall's first year and later vendors entering after years as customers.
Vintage glass, porcelain and dinnerware place domestic design from different periods within adjoining booths, allowing Franciscan ceramics, older glass and twentieth-century tableware to be examined through changes in color, weight, decoration and manufacturing. Furniture expands that chronology through armoires, chairs and smaller household pieces, giving large objects the same dealer-driven circulation as jewelry and coins. Vinyl, comics, toys and Disney memorabilia move the collecting emphasis into twentieth-century popular culture, joining utilitarian objects such as tools, fishing equipment and automotive pieces within the same marketplace. Production designers add another use for this accumulated material, with local film and television projects acquiring and renting period pieces from the dealers. Students from CalArts and College of the Canyons have likewise become a substantial younger customer group, purchasing objects for creative projects and extending the mall's audience beyond conventional antiquing. The dealer system keeps those categories in continuous circulation, preserving a retail format in which nearly a century of objects can change ownership without collapsing their differences into a single curated collection.
How Country Antique Fair Mall fits.
Country Antique Fair Mall works as the anchor for an outing connecting Saugus's railroad origins with California's early petroleum industry and the silent-film ranch where Western cinema became embedded in the Santa Clarita Valley.
Begin at Saugus Train Station, established when Southern Pacific completed its branch through the Santa Clara River Valley toward Santa Paula in 1887 and developed Saugus as a junction between routes toward Los Angeles, Mojave and the coast. The surviving two-story depot followed Southern Pacific's standardized station architecture and combined passenger, freight and railroad operations within one building. Passenger service ended in 1971, and the final station agent closed the depot in 1978 as demolition approached. Preservationists moved the structure two miles to Heritage Junction during the night of June 24 and 25, 1980, keeping one of Saugus's foundational railroad structures intact. Continue to Pioneer Oil Refinery, established by California Star Oil Works in 1876 to process petroleum from the nearby Pico Canyon field into kerosene. Chemist Vincent Gelcich engineered the refinery's early stills, two of which had first operated behind Lyons Station before being moved to the Pine Street site. A third still followed in 1877 and a fourth in 1879 before refining ceased in 1884, leaving machinery from the formative period of California's petroleum industry. Standard Oil restored the complex in 1930 as a memorial to D. G. Scofield, and the surviving refinery became California Historical Landmark 172 before entering the National Register of Historic Places in 2020. Conclude at Tesoro Adobe Historic Park, preserving the ranch actor Harry Carey Sr. established at the mouth of San Francisquito Canyon after acquiring the property in 1916. Carey developed the ranch during his rise as one of silent cinema's major Western stars, and son Harry Carey Jr. was born there in 1921. The original wooden residence survived the catastrophic 1928 St. Francis Dam flood before burning in 1932, prompting construction of the adobe ranch house that survives as the property's centerpiece. John Wayne, William S. Hart and Gary Cooper were among the Western film figures connected with the ranch, tying its domestic landscape directly to the community of performers who shaped the genre. The progression moves from the railroad junction that gave Saugus its early commercial purpose through surviving machinery from California's formative oil industry and culminates at a ranch where the valley became intertwined with the development of the American screen Western.
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