Hundreds of people flocked to Seven Mile Thursday for the opening day of the U.S. 127 Corridor “World’s Longest Yardsale.”

Ardelle and Brian Moore came all the way from Ontario, Canada in search of die-cast cars for Brian’s collection. As of Thursday afternoon they had spent $15.

“We came especially for this sale, a friend told me about it last year and we said ‘oh that sounds like so much fun’,” she said. “We’re not going all the way, it’s too hot. We started in Eaton and we’re going to go as far as we can until we melt… It’s lots of fun, there’s lots of great stuff.”

The four-day sale starts on U.S. 127 just north of Addison, Mich. and runs 690 miles south to Gadsden, Ala. The trail switches to the Lookout Mountain Parkway in Chattanooga, Tenn. The tradition was started 25 years ago in Kentucky and Tennessee and Ohio hooked up four years ago, says Brenda Bailey. She and two of her friends, Carmen Cox and Beth Benjamin set up tents and were hawking their wares on Benjamin’s front lawn.

This was the ladies second year and they said they made out like bandits last year, Bailey — who Cox called a “hoarder” — raked in $800 and Cox raised $500. By 7 a.m. Thursday morning Benjamin said people started rolling through town looking for bargains. She said she even sold two bottles of lotion and a package of Thanksgiving napkins. The ladies already had someone from California stop by their sale.

“Last year we had a lady who flew into Dayton, rented a car and was going the whole route all the way to Alabama,” Bailey said.

There weren’t too many sales set up Thursday, but the ladies said the whole street should be filled by the weekend. Everything from clothes, to furniture to tools, the wares run the gamut, one house had rows of golf bags standing at attention.

Marvin Gabbard who lives in Oxford, said he paid $20 to rent a yard for the four days.

“I do this to help my Social Security,” he said. “I go around to yard sales and bring the stuff out to try and make a little money.”