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 […]
After a wild Friday night and a rough Saturday night working, I woke up Sunday to an awesome breakfast and then a drive back east to the airport. I had some time to kill and found Thorndale on the way. Lucky for me, they had a Goodwill. Unlucky for me, they best they could muster […]
I don’t get out to the east coast very often. I did check out Albany a while back…and New Hampshire was a blast. I have been to PA years ago but it was so long ago that I didn’t collect records then (did such a time really exist??) and I was closer to the Pittsburg […]
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, […]
Had a grueling 3-day trip through Wisconsin and Minnesota and took advantage of whatever I could find on the way, which in this case ended up consisting of entirely Goodwill stores. Day #1 my work was in Sussex WI. I stayed the night in nearby Brookfield. This allowed me to hit Goodwill stores in Brookfield […]
My trip started in Robinson – when I struck out at two antique stores, then found that the local Goodwill was closed for their annual Christmas party, I hauled out of town. Robinson is a rare stop on my journeys where I could not find a Marriott or Holiday Inn to stay in anywhere nearby […]
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 […]
This is my third trip to the KC area. The first was years ago but the second was just a couple months ago. However during that trip my time and mobility were limited. This time, I had a full solid evening to myself with a rental car. I was working in Independance but I was […]
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 […]