Life has been pretty busy with starting up my company and finishing my master’s thesis, but last weekend we went antiquing again and found a couple things. First is an oil painting whose tag said it was from the 1920s. The frame isn’t in good shape, but Jenny says she can do something about that. [...]
Jenny and I went to visit my family for the holidays last week. We went to Champaign, Illinois and while there we went downtown to Carrie’s Antiques & Jewelry. I found some Life magazines, all in really great shape from the 1930′s to the 1980′s. They were $5 apiece so I picked up four of [...]
Jenny had a book exchange at work and brought home a 1944 version of The Book of Home Party Games. I don’t know who would get rid of this. It’s a great find, full of interesting stuff!
So my visiting parents, Jenny, and I went to Platte Valley Antique Mall and I found some issues of The Saturday Evening Post, which I had yet to come across. They’re from 1946 which is later than I would have liked, but since they were in great shape and I didn’t know when I’d find [...]
So my parents came to Omaha for a visit and my grandma — who is going through her stuff while preparing to move — gave my mom a couple more of grandpa’s things: a picture of him from around 1941 (just after he finished boot camp) and a mirror that was made in 1940 and [...]
Just over a month ago I took the radio to Antique Radio of Iowa to get my 1939 Zenith radio restored and repaired. I just picked it up last night and they did a great job of polishing the chassis, replacing the burnt-out tubes, swapping out the old paper capacitors with modern ones, adding a [...]
I’ve been looking for a mantel clock for a long time now and I finally found one on eBay which met all the preferences: a mechanical humpback style clock in good condition from the right period which worked, chimed, had a pretty face, pretty hands, had a key, had a pendulum, and had the original [...]
Jenny and I just got back from vacationing in St. Louis and on the way back we some antique stores, including the River Market Antique Mall in downtown Kansas City where I found a great hat rack for only $25. I’ve been looking for a coat rack for a long time and this one looks [...]
Jenny and I just got back from vacationing in St. Louis and on the way back we hit some antique stores in Missouri. One was Artichoke Annie’s about 11 miles outside of Columbia. This place was not your typical “antique store” which has a lot of junk in it; this place had some good stuff. [...]
Today Jenny and I checked out a new place in Omaha that just opened up called Lucky’s Vintage and the owner, Jeanne, was very cool. There were a lot of really cool things there and it wasn’t the typical “junk store” we usually see. I finally found a desk chair which has been a priority [...]