BS Antiques part 1

 On a lazy vacation day, I visited this giant antique store. I've been here before, and it has a ton of museum-quality things inside.

I suppose I should show the entrance. The name is a little un-inspiring but at least it's useful. Where is Barret Street Antique Center? Um... yeah.

Are you a "red axe" person, or a "blue axe" person? Of course, if we were in The Matrix, you'd have to take the red axe.

The area outside has a lot of yard stuff. It's going to wind up in your yard, so I guess it's okay to keep them out here.

This big bell is still here. No surprise. Unless they sold the one that was here before, and this is another one? Yeah, probably the same one from before.

This twisted sculpture of driftwood was interesting. Did somebody "create" this? Or did the ocean do that, and somebody just sort-of found it? Looks like some kind of magical nature portal arch. I can imagine if I walk through it, I'll wind up on an island somewhere.

Lucky horseshoes! That's "in my wheelhouse" being a pony and all. Most people don't know you have to hang it like a "U" because it's supposed to catch the luck that way.

If they are not responsible for injury or death, caused by these cats, then are you also not responsible for injuring or deathing those cats? That's fair right? To be clear, that was just a joke and I'm not going to hurt any cats. But I am a little nervous now. What kind of cats are these exactly?

This looks very clean, but an antique toilet has got to rank very high on the gross-ness scale. Yikes.

Something is just not right about the words Beanie Babies and Grateful Dead being used together. Although honestly I've seen stranger off-brand merchandising.

Wow the price on that old children's barber chair is $2450! Does it automatically cut hair or something? You still have to do the haircutting yourself.

The lighting in this shelf is amazing. It's like a movie special effect for a space bar with cool alien glasses. I wonder how plain they'd look in your own kitchen. Like hey, I bought some space glasses, why aren't they glowing?

Old comics. Filled with spoilers for the movies. Probably. I think they are working on a She-Hulk show, for $120 you can read it right now.

Always neat to see an antique Bible. It's a little wrong to think that this is somehow filled with extra wisdom-energy because of it's age. Like it's filled up with prayers or something. Totally not how that works, right?

If you are going to put some flowers in your house, they've got to go in crazy cool vases. It's like half the reason to get some flowers.

You get +5000 Cool Points if the sound effects from this classic Coleco Electronic Quarterback football game are playing in your head right now. Chirp!

Look at the size of that wrench! What could you possibly need a wrench that big for? If you saw that in a movie, you wouldn't believe it was real. Like they made it up for movie purposes. Hmm, ...is this a movie prop?

I have that Star Trek puzzle! The one I have came in a tin cylinder. We have it framed and everything. It's valuable because the merchandising team at the time was a little "racist" and made Spock green. Because he's an alien, and otherwise, how could you tell? So obviously it's contradictory to the message of the show.

I don't remember there being shiny foil Garbage Pail Kids cards. But I'm pretty sure they have been re-printing them with modern techniques. It's funny to think that these might have more enduring nostalgia than the Cabbage Patch Kids they were ripping off.

It was oddly sad that those cool geometric shapes on the hand-crafted soaps in this cabinet would immediately turn to shapeless blobs upon their first use. But right now, they look really cool.

We recently went fishing on our trip down to the Outer Banks, so it was neat to see these old fishing reels in the cabinet. I have no idea which ones are good or not, but there might be someone I know who would.

I wonder if this book, is in this book? Whoa! It's a value paradox! Why has this not imploded yet?

Looks like Santa upgraded his sleigh with a 200 Reindeerpower motorcycle. The front light is even red. 

This weird chair's tag said it was a "clotheshorse" chair. Does that mean anything to you? Me neither.

If The Legend of Zelda video games have taught you anything, it's that you are free to open a treasure chest wherever you are, and keep the contents. Didn't want someone walking away with your Magical Boomerang? Well, you shouldn't have kept it in a giant treasure chest.

That what it does. It's a King Neptune Statue. It was just odd seeing it written out like that on these coasters.

You want an insult hanging on your wall? I bet it was an old fisherman who put this in the antique store, he was tired of looking at it.

Whoa! That's a little shocking to see these religious candles with Marilyn Monroe and Taylor Swift depicted as The Virgin Mary. That's like something Kanye would do. Where's the Kanye version? "Yo Taylor, I'm really happy for you, Imma let you finnish... But Beyonce had one of the best candles of all time!"