Hey all! It looks like I'm gonna get snowed on here in Chicago starting tomorrow. They're saying maybe 8" by Friday - eek! But that's okay, I've been thrifting, so I'm prepared - check it out!
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The tag says "Draper of Glastonbury, Made in England".
They're suede, with sheepskin lining, and they fit like a glove! |
I picked these up last night (when the temperature was in the 50s! It's really been beautiful here so far.) on an after-class thrift jaunt to the Village Discount Outlet in Little Village, which I think might be a neighborhood in the actual city of Chicago, since it sounds like a funny name for a town. I have enjoyed seeing the bits of the area that I've seen - I've spent a lot of time on Cermak/22nd Street. My class is just off of it in Oak Brook, my Hotel is just off of it in Westchester, and following it east it becomes a pretty interesting sort of main drag as you get to the more inner suburbs. I love all the cool signage, and there are lots of hot-dog/italian beef type places and various other nifty restaurants, and lots of discount stores and laundromats and funeral homes and bakeries and whatnot. Some of the fun signs:
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Cermak Plaza Shopping Center had these windmilly things,
obviously fairly new, all around this cool old 50s sign. Like! |
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| Scatchell's Pizza, Italian Beef, Italian Sausages, Catering, Frozen Lemonade and probably a dozen other things. |
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| I love it - it looks like a movie set.
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| Laundry World! It's like a carnival for your blankets and things. |
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| Old Warsaw Polish Style Smorgasbord's sign is the best. |
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| Even the address part of the sign looks cool. |
I've had some pretty good thrifting luck on this trip, but other than the boots I brought up to the room in case I need to wear them tomorrow, everything is stashed in the rental car, so no pics of my other treasures, but I can show you phone snaps of some things I didn't buy (because they were too big) at the Salvation Army store in Oak Park this evening:
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| Funky mod 60s or 70s chrome/cork/etc table. |
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| Very cool shelf/cabinet (that's the sliding doors for the cabinet intact inside). |
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Super cool 60s abstract painting. I wanted this, bad.
But it's huge, there are spots of what I can only assume is
mildew on it, and it was $20. I even asked if I might get a
discount on it, but the manager said no, because it's big. Huh? |
I did pick up a few things there, as I have at each of the thrift stores I've visited so far on this trip. You know, I think Goodwill is cheaper here than in St. Louis. Anyway, I better call it a night. I'll try to post more on the stores and the finds therein soon. Good night!
