spindle spider dot comI have had my eye on this place for a long time but never made the trip. On an unseasonably warm weekend, I made the bike ride from Elmhurst out to Berkeley and back. I was rewarded for my work! Google maps has some misinformation which I have pending fixes already submitted on. It has […]
VDOs are around the city but many (most?) do not have vinyl, they have limited housewares and mostly just clothes. I have picked up some cool threads from Addison’s store and I have also pulled some vinyl out of there. Before I went in on this day, I commented aloud that since the first time […]
I visited West Chicago a while back when I heard about a new thrift store opening. We took the train and came out on a Sunday so did not get to inspect the St. V’s across the street. This Saturday, we drove and hit up both. After checking out some other new St. V’s lately, […]
In my continuing effort to take down all the Chicagoland St. Vincent thrift stores, we rose (relatively, for a Sunday) early to head south (after following the opposite heading on our last jaunt) to Orland Park for yet another excursion. Records aside, this was one of the nicest record bins I’ve ever seen. In many […]
I’ve been to a bunch of St. Vincent thrift stores, in a bunch of different states. And it is really difficult to find a straightforward list of stores, because it seems that someone can open a thrift store as sort of a franchisee. If you check the national St. Vincent website, you will find a […]
About a year ago, I followed a lead on gsalr.com to a listing that claimed they had piles and piles of records. It was about a 5 mile ride, and it wasn’t very nice out: windy and cold, late fall Chicago. But I soldiered through it as thoughts of big scores and a library of […]
At this moment, I am drinking a beer with the Blackhawks game on behind me. Just got done taking a shower and shaving, after dinner. I completed a lengthy and overdue post on my two day adventure in New Hampshire recently and I know that today has been damn near perfect. How many times have […]
On a rainy Saturday afternoon, I was very pleased to find that of the 3 garage sales that had the word ‘records’ in their descriptions on gsalr.com, one of them was just a couple blocks from my girlfriends house. (the other two were 10-20 miles away). So I sped over on my bike through the […]
I come in here pretty regularly but I don’t blog about it often. Seems like I’ve had worse luck here than at other St. V’s I’ve been to only one time. I did pull a Tappan Zee LP out of here not too long ago….and today, and Eng comp – really the last one I […]
I feel like at this rate the Sunday morning desperation will only lead to a trip 100s of miles away as we continue to dominate a larger and larger radius of record stashes across Chicagoland. This one only took us to Winfield which was closer than it sounded and it was a worthwhile trip at […]