Fossil Sale!

Right up in front of the store you’ll find some fossils — no, not people, actual fossilized remains! *wink*

Among the prehistoric creatures preserved in all their petrified glory are crocodile jaws and, my favorite, the turtle skulls.

If that’s not a rock-solid enough reason to come on in to Antiques On Broadway to see ‘em, well, here’s another: The fossils are on sale!

You’d better come in quick, because the sale ends — and the fossils themselves will disappear — at the end of this month.

Talk about extinct!

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May Update & Sale

It’s been a few weeks, but we keep acquiring more stuff. We now have about another 30 Stephen King books. We brought in 2 more glass cases yesterday and moved a few things around to make room. There are many things we haven’t gotten to pricing yet. There’s model kits for cars, coca-cola stuff, neon beer signs, and all kinds of things to still be discovered in boxes.

Yesterday was the zombie pub crawl, and we saw barely any zombies go by. :(

We are also going to have our 5th year anniversary sale from Monday May 21 to Monday May 28, and most things will have various discounts on them.

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Weekend Update

It has been a little chaotic. We now have many more model kits or cars, truck, planes, and whatever else. There’s 2 big boxes full of Hot Wheels, Matchbox, and other miscellaneous cars. We also have 2 more giant boxes full of comic books. There’s a few more M&M’s collectibles in their boxes. It’s a little messy around the counter, we are working on pricing things and finding places for them.

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The End Of The Spring 2012 Semester In Fargo-Moorhead

Attention Fargo-Moorhead college students! As the end of the Spring 2012 semester approaches, you really ought to get yourselves to Antiques On Broadway.

We’ve got lots of cool one of a kind vintage and retro kitchen items that will make snacking while studying a bit more, well, fun! You can pick up funky retro Pyrex glass bowls for popcorn…

Maybe kitschy salt and pepper shakers to make seasoning more fun.

Or maybe something a bit more elegant… Like vintage milk glass snack sets with gold trim.

We’ve got the goods for celebrating too. From goblets, cups and other glassware to toast with…

And vintage vinyl to spin…

To unique gifts for grads, you can find bargains that don’t like they came from the dollar store.

Moving out of the dorms and into an apartment? You’re going to need some furniture…

Maybe something a bit better than posters on the walls too.

Skip the thrift stores and get something fabulous that suits your style and your budget at Antiques On Broadway.

Plus, some people even find shopping at antique shops as relaxing as comfort food — without all the calories. *wink*

Congratulations on completing the semester!

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Many Beer Taps

We went to an auction yesterday and bought a lot of beer taps. Their prices range from $10 to $40. We’ve kind of made a mess at the front counter but are quickly working on cleaning it up again.

We’ve acquired more train stuff and some toys.

There’s an old Mr. Potato Head in the box. I always thought it came with the plastic face to put pieces in, but I guess it gives you a cardboard face to insert the pieces, and they encourage you to use an actual potato. I never knew about that. While looking for it, I encountered more of its kind. I never knew there were cucumbers and carrots. Now that I see it, I wonder if that in any way inspired Jeff Dunham’s “José Jalapeño on a Stick” character. I don’t know why Mr Potato Head became more famous than them either. There’s probably even more I’ve never heard of.

We’ve moved a few things around. There’s a big wooden China Hutch with jewelry now, and a few other shelves were moved to our lower level.

I also forgot to mention we have acquired many Conan The King comics too in the sleeves and in good condition. They go from $4 to $6.








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Easter

Cleaning, sorting, buying, and selling things. Today we mopped the basement floor which hasn’t been done in I don’t know how long. We’ve acquired a nice metal and glass shelf to hold more stuff, and it looks nicer than the big shelves we’ve been constructing. We also have an old cash register that is about as heavy as a car, and I suspect that one day it is going to snap our black desk in half. It has a bunch of buttons and knobs. I understand the dollars and cents buttons, but there’s A, B, D, E, H, & K keys that I just look at and have no idea of what they were for. It looks like something that came out of Dr. Who’s Tardis.

Our lights in the room with all of the toys died. Until today, I had a lamp in there to make things visible, but it was still dark. We replaced them earlier today. I learned you need all 4 lights in to make it work instead of only just 1. We put them in and that room is now brighter than I recall it ever being.

We didn’t have an Easter sale. I also read a scary Easter hunt article.

We no longer have a huge table with cookies by the front counter, it’s been replaced with a smaller one. That definitely makes it easier for some dealers to reach and grab their case keys without needing to walk around the counter.

We also have a bunch of pictures of decanters. They still have the whiskey, they haven’t been unsealed. All of them have their original boxes except one of them.









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St. Patrick’s Day Parade

It was a very busy day on Saturday. There was the marathon just before the parade. Jan & Pat joined the parade. It was very nice outside. We have been busy moving a bunch of things around. In the past few days we constructed 10 different shelves to put things on. A new dealer has joined us too. He has a lot of cameras. I’m surprised by how many people that bought trilobite fossils, and a few of them even knew what they were. Up until a month ago I had never heard of such a thing. We’ve acquired more G.I. Joe, Batman, and M&Ms things. There are more neon light signs too.

A few weeks ago, we also figured out how to do a few more useful things with Quickbooks software that has been making our lives easier.

Also, there’s a video that has nothing to do with us, but I thought it was funny. Crank the speakers up!

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The beginning of March

We have had 3 new dealers. We now have more sports cards, some fossils, and books. We have also obtained a lot of old children’s books, and some of them were Dr. Seuss books. It’s been a frantic first day doing all of the dealers’ rent calculations. We kept losing papers, then ran out of black ink for the computer, and the phone is still randomly cutting people off mid-sentence. We’re getting a new phone. More Batman, G. I. Joe, and M&M’s collectibles have been brought in. We’ve also sold a lot of furniture in the last 2 weeks, and it wasn’t easy carrying that stuff up stairs. It was an all day process. It has also snowed a lot in the past few days. All of the snow was pushed off of the sidewalks and into all of the parking spaces, so we had a day of nothing. Nobody walking in a blizzard and nowhere to park. We are still organizing and cleaning things all over.

Also for just an odd thing out of nowhere, everybody should type this in youtube and find the 9:10 video: “Jimmy Kimmel Pitches OWN Shows to Oprah”

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Why Antique Stores Won’t Go Away

Since the arrival of the Internet and the multitude of online shopping options, folks have wondered and even worried about the status of real world brick and mortar shops. While there’s a lot to be said for the ease of sitting in your pajamas at odd hours of the night and purchasing with a few clicks of the mouse, the fact is that for those who love antiques and collectibles nothing replaces the delight of browsing in an antiques shop. Just one shelf offers the opportunity to discover things you never knew existed — but suddenly need!

Here, Dickota Pottery sits with a vintage glass cocktail shaker, a wind-up toy crocodile, retro bangle bracelets, a smaller sized Red Wing crock, local North Dakota pinbacks and other collectibles, a Jay Herbert advertising lighter (with the original box!), a male hula dancer (complete with grass skirt and ukelele), and lots of other bits and bobs. There’s even a kitschy Santa — because at antique stores, Christmas collectibles aren’t only available for sale during holiday season! Why not stop in and see what we have to surprise and charm you today?

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Antiques On Broadway February Update

We have acquired a lot of G.I. Joe toys recently, along with more hotwheels and other similar cars. We have a 12 piece Noritaki China set made of 91 pieces. Sold a buffet. We have 2 new dealers too. We also the Valentine’s sale 2-11-12 and Sunday 2-12-12. Nearly everything will be from 10% to 50% off.

We also have a chili cook-off Sunday 2-12-12 for our dealers. You can try a sample and vote for the best chili.

We’ve been trying to make space in a room to get most of the old toy tractors on some shelves, it’s a work in progress.

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