Typo: "... I would fins find a typewriter"
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| A life-size harlequin. Interesting for sure. But man, it be creepy! |
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| Film projectors, cute spacey radio, and 60s electric fan. |
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| Nice bakelite tube radio. Someday, I will score one of these. |
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| An Adwoa moment. |
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| And here it is, folks, my not-an-Olivetti-M1 sighting. It's a plastic Marathon (Adler?), circa 1980's I presume, and in working condition. Overpriced at $40. |
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| Perhaps a more interesting sighting- a newspaper clipping of a re-painted Olympia Splendid being sold by Heima, a Manila-based store with an icelandic name. I was glad that the interest for typewriters seems to be catching on in the metropolis but geez, etsy-level pricing seems to be catching on as well: Php 5000 = USD $120 |
9 comments:
Nifty!
I'm fascinated by photos of antique and thrift stores around the world. No matter where you go, they seem to have a similar look. It must be the beer signs. :)
And you're right about the harlequin. This is most assuredly creepy.
Great place!
I would love running a place like this... only problem is it would be really difficult to sell the antiques; I'd want to keep them all!
I spy a very nice 1930s or so tricycle hanging from the ceiling, several carved wood furniture, an art-deco sofa, a record player and several cassette tapes (I grew up with those!)
I also spy porcelain lamps, porcelain vases of a type known as "tibores" in Spanish, and what looks like a coffee grinder. Fantastic, eclectic collection!
I like all the things in this shop!!
@Peter, @Luis, @Uriel, thanks!
@Dana, you are so right, antique/thrift stores do resemble each other wherever they may be.
@Miguel, what a thorough inventory of the shop, thanks! I also grew up with cassette tapes, they were a pain when they got entangled on the player head.
I'm lead to believe that the Marathon was a Remington machine. But I could be wrong.
@Scott, you might be right.
"Adwoa moment" - love it! That's a pretty neat shop; I like it when you can step into one space and see a fine selection of knick knacks... that harlequin is certainly memorable. And the typewriter certainly counts as a solid sighting; at least it shows they are in the business of selling them from time to time, and I'm sure they occasionally have gems like the Remette you mentioned.
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