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April 8, 2008
If you've been to our apartment recently, you've already seen all the goods I brought back from Santa Barbara. If not, I'm posting these photos here for you. I scored big time. As I mentioned before, we stopped in Santa Barbara on our ride home from LA just for breakfast when I saw this sign. We pulled over the car and I asked the lady out front if this was for real and she sighed and told me she was closing up shop after twenty years. But she wasn't opening the doors just yet, we were a touch early. When I asked what time she was opening, she said, "oh about eight minutes." It was as if God had aligned everything just so: me, this store, 12 noon. I stood there like a kid in front of the gates to Charlie's Chocolate Factory, impatiently licking my lips and trying to scope out the goods from where I was standing. When the clock struck noon, I ran inside and within 15 minutes picked out quite a bit of stuff. There were only a few casual clueless shoppers and so I had total run of the place. Rafe stood by guarding the haul and in the end, I only spent $25! For SIX BOXES OF GREAT STUFF. If I knew my way around Ebay...Here are a few of my favorites:
This head was $1. It sort of matches another pair of figurines I scored in New Orleans a few years ago. I love this head.
This accordion is super old. The tag says "squeeze box from before Bodie, CA was a ghost town." When the lady saw we were buying this she said she hadn't meant to include this in the sale but oops, we could have it, what the hay. For a dollar.
These matching wall hangings are from Ecuador. And old. $1 each.
This scale is solid brass (?) and is also very, very old. It cost one dollar. It is good for weighing and displaying produce.
This glass hand, for rings I'm supposing, was a birthday gift purchased from another store. Not one dollar, but a cool antique store find anyhow.
One of two old ass clocks-- $1
This old souvenir plate is from Tijuana. This was way before the time when souvenirs from Tijuana usually meant cheap dental work and even cheaper black market Viagra.Only ONE DOLLAR.
Posted by debbie at April 8, 2008 1:53 PM