Meanwhile, cops, vendors, and the people from the streets gather to watch the protest ("Christmas Bells").

The park has a petting zoo and a small aquarium, and is a place where vendors, musicians, artists and street performers gather.

Individual vendors gather in the streets as well as the large business buildings, such as Wannien Department Store and Shizilin Square during the day, and Wanguo Department Store and Eslite 116 later at night.

"Renovation has been good for us, all of us," says Huang Thi Xuan, who runs a pharmacy in the city's cacophonous market, a dingy, warehouselike building in which vendors gather each morning at dawn to sell clothing, household goods and food from long rows of stalls.

At the storage warehouse, Mr. Zongo's fellow vendors gathered in shock, grief and disbelief.

Many organizations, demonstrators, and vendors also gather in the brickyard to pass out information about their organizations, to fundraise, or to sponsor various activities.

Entertainers, street musicians and vendors gather, each attracting his own crowd; people linger, they walk, they look at one another and at the world as it passes by.

Only later did I realize that the way musicians, street performers, vendors, dealers and teenagers gathered there was not entirely inconsistent with its original intention to serve as a festive and dramatic gathering place.

Each night, vendors in Phitsanulok gather to form Phitsanulok's night market.

D Map Reserve Saturday morning for this brilliant ecofriendly, organic food market where some 90-odd vendors gather, serving everything from artisanal breads and tapanades to crepes and champagne.