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deliriumcrowAlbany has the weirdest not-stores. It's true. About three years ago I used to walk here all the time, and find interesting little things hidden on side streets. Because I was very bored. :)
Across the street from us on Madison, at the other end of the block, is the most wonderful antique store. It's the sort that has only a very narrow path up one side and down the other, and the rest of the store requires excavation. Which can be fun, in that sort of arcaheological way. And it had a little of everything in those layers. Including an unstrung German Porcelain doll from the 19th century. Except it does not appear to be a store anymore. It does have kittens, though, who appear to be healthy, which implies that either the place is *full* of mice, or that the owner comes in and feeds them sometimes. Or perhaps they've all just snuck in through a hole somewhere. It's werid though. I've considered staking the place out, just to see if the owner ever does come in, and would I ever be allowed to go in again? Because I always bought something, every time I went. I found an early 20th century fine wolen vest there that fit Remy perfectly. Perfectly! It's so pretty, though I think I may end up trying to dulicate it and doign something to preserve the old one.
On Hudson St there is a store front called Fashion Cleaners. the only word that remains is Fashion, the other has since fallen off and left a big "cleaners" shaped stain on the facade. The first time I saw the store, I think it still had a "back in five minutes" sign in the window, and lots of interesting old clothes. So I walked around a couple blocks to give them time to return. I think they have not yet done so. The mannequins are still there, as is much of the stock that was there before, as well as a doll from the 60s in her original box, called Fran. A wooden mantel lies on the floor in front of a stained glass window, at a rather interesting angle. And then there's the squirrel. Ex-squirrel at this point really, but it started that way. It seems to hav staved to death in the front window, in one of the display cases. It looks like the flesh melted away into nothing, leaving only a puddle of bristling fur, a skull, and something that I really hope was just a tooth. So gross, and yet so...fascinating. on the door, just above the handle, was a snail, who seems to have become cemented there. Yellow with a rather pretty brown stripe that echoed the spiral of the shell itself, rather than radiating outward. I want to know what the building is being used for, and by whom. And why. And why they had something that looked almost like a properly set up store front window, being used for nothing. Ok, so it did, before the squirrel and the crooked mantel.
Across the street from us on Madison, at the other end of the block, is the most wonderful antique store. It's the sort that has only a very narrow path up one side and down the other, and the rest of the store requires excavation. Which can be fun, in that sort of arcaheological way. And it had a little of everything in those layers. Including an unstrung German Porcelain doll from the 19th century. Except it does not appear to be a store anymore. It does have kittens, though, who appear to be healthy, which implies that either the place is *full* of mice, or that the owner comes in and feeds them sometimes. Or perhaps they've all just snuck in through a hole somewhere. It's werid though. I've considered staking the place out, just to see if the owner ever does come in, and would I ever be allowed to go in again? Because I always bought something, every time I went. I found an early 20th century fine wolen vest there that fit Remy perfectly. Perfectly! It's so pretty, though I think I may end up trying to dulicate it and doign something to preserve the old one.
On Hudson St there is a store front called Fashion Cleaners. the only word that remains is Fashion, the other has since fallen off and left a big "cleaners" shaped stain on the facade. The first time I saw the store, I think it still had a "back in five minutes" sign in the window, and lots of interesting old clothes. So I walked around a couple blocks to give them time to return. I think they have not yet done so. The mannequins are still there, as is much of the stock that was there before, as well as a doll from the 60s in her original box, called Fran. A wooden mantel lies on the floor in front of a stained glass window, at a rather interesting angle. And then there's the squirrel. Ex-squirrel at this point really, but it started that way. It seems to hav staved to death in the front window, in one of the display cases. It looks like the flesh melted away into nothing, leaving only a puddle of bristling fur, a skull, and something that I really hope was just a tooth. So gross, and yet so...fascinating. on the door, just above the handle, was a snail, who seems to have become cemented there. Yellow with a rather pretty brown stripe that echoed the spiral of the shell itself, rather than radiating outward. I want to know what the building is being used for, and by whom. And why. And why they had something that looked almost like a properly set up store front window, being used for nothing. Ok, so it did, before the squirrel and the crooked mantel.
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Date: 2004-08-19 04:46 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-08-19 05:02 am (UTC)Really, you should see it. It's *flat*. I think I shall drag out Remy's digital camera and shoot it.
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Date: 2004-08-19 06:31 am (UTC)Or, better still, break in and claim it as a pet.
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Date: 2004-08-19 07:49 am (UTC)But yeah, definately going after the store with a camera.
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Date: 2004-08-19 05:27 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-08-19 07:20 pm (UTC)