Nashville Flea Market

Before Mama Nature interrupted this program to bring us Ice Storm 2009 Part Deux, I was talking about our trip to the Nashville Flea Market. Day 2 took us to Franklin, TN and a wonderful antique mall located in an old former ice house. Just the kind of mall we all like - nooks and crannies, lots of little rooms and treasures hidden around every corner. And around one of those corners I found it - a beautiful oak rolltop desk in my price range. In the trailer it went, followed by a copper fish weathervane (perfect for our Ohio River store), an old sewing chest filled with lots of old sewing notions and there was still room for a vintage suitcase. You can never have too many of those. This stuff joined all the treasures from the flea market - sack of cork-lined bottle caps, two gravy boats, a sack of old hardware, and a fixer-upper dentist cabinet. Our journey home took us off the interstate (we really detest interstates) and onto the blue highways where the real America lives. A stop in an antique store located in an old livery stable brought us to an old shabby oak mantle - in the trailer it went. 40 Norman Rockwell plates were calling our name so in they went too. Two metal card file cabinets later and we were back on the blue highway. Our last stop of the day was an antique mall located in an old elementary school -a two story Marx metal dollhouse, a set of vintage flash cards and two old documents boxes joined the group in the trailer. Now if we had stayed on the interstate we would have missed all that.
That's the news from the Bay City General Store.
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