Thursday, August 27, 2015

Archaeological Expedition to Le Claire Iowa


August 2015 - heading to Peoria for our nephew Ray's wedding we decided to make a pilgrimage to Antique Archaeology in Le Claire Iowa, just on the other side of the Mississippi River.




This must be the place: the familiar Nash Rambler from the TV show.


The friendly Le Claire shop girls Morgan, Destiny and Jenna (?) (Please contact The Moderate to Severe Collector if we got the name wrong) were happy to autograph the book  we bought.







  Lots of good junk including Mike's personal Vespa which is not for sale...








The original building.


Even the stuff outside looks pretty good.


Unlike those obnoxious tourists, we bought useful stuff like a shot glass, guitar pick, lip decal and their book.


Lunch in Le Claire
 
Big Dave and Holly's






Lunch at Big Dave and Holly's in Le Claire. Great little place. I had tacos, Merikay had a breaded pork sandwich. Good food and clean bathroom. What more could you want?

Sunday, August 2, 2015

Map Your Mile in Oak Brook - interesting estate sale




I call this Map Your Mile because you had to park your car across 31st street in the church parking lot and then walk to the end of the dead end street for the sale. But it was worth it. The exact type of sale pickers like.
 
Coming down the road but no house visible. Interesting


 Make the turn in to the driveway. Everyone had to walk a couple blocks since this was a narrow dead-end street with no room for extra cars to go in and out.





Greeted by a helper in the basement.








Lots of books

Massive rope collection for those rope-ologists.







 Vintage Western Holly double oven.  One of their trademarks are the round windows.



This was a Lynn Estate Sale. Pictured with helper Paula.




Vintage clocks from a school.

Some unusual bikes. The folding bikes seem very collectible.



 Very rusty old Schwinn. No tank, so no thanks.



Nice Tootsie toy truck


This bird had some heft and the price was right.


All 1960's coffee carafes seem to be different. No two alike.


A cuppla 70's neckties. These are starting to look better all the time. They just needed to age a while.

Some decent paper: Mustang magazines, Roy Rogers coloring book, wartime Hawaii guide book, early 1950's Colorado brochure, mid-1940's religious book from the Middle East, 'Deep River' Armed Services edition.


 Lynn posted this picture of a Luna Moth she saw on the side of the house. This was after we left. Finding Luna Moth is the dream of every midwest Lepidopterist...the Crown Jewel of motha. Though I don't collect butterflies and moths anymore except digitally I would have gone nuts if I had seen this.