The Thrill of the Hunt

Today I got to Shirley's house in Pinole bright & early.  She got wind of an estate sale in Kensington.  It was fun but nothing that we absolutely had to have.  We tooled around in Berkeley a while & then went to the old Addison End Papers facility at Alcatraz & Telegraph.  It might be just their warehouse now because their store is on Colusa.  Anyway when we drove up there was a line half way down the block.  This was the "PAY" line.  We found tons of fun things inside the store, vintage fabrics, millinery, their famous pretty papers, etc, etc.

Wendy Addison was there helping out.  I saw one lady in the corner with her back to us looking through a box of what appeared to be beautiful buttons.  She had her shopping bag on the floor & I assumed the button box was just like all the other boxes, for people to look at together.  I reached into that box & she said "this is MY box".  She was sorting through it.  I said "you are buying all of those?"  She said "I may put some back but it's my box".  I continued on looking in other boxes.  I came back a few times & she was still there hoarding the button box.  I went in the back room & must have been in there 1/2 hr or so & finally went back out in the first room & she was still there sorting.  There were some laying out on the table in front of the box.  I said "are these ones you don't want".  She just looked at me & went back to her box.  Crapolla!  So much for those. 

Then I got in the line outside which was a block long by now.  It took forever to get up to the table to pay.  There were two women collecting $$.  One of the women was quick.  The other one was having a big gabfest with every customer.  Chatting about this & that which is fine if you are not busy but geez Louise, people were waiting forever.  I really wanted to say something & wish I did now so I'll complain now.

After that we went to Shirley's brother's antique store & a few other places.  We were on a roll finding cool inexpensive stuff.  I haven't got pics yet but wanted to get this posted in case anyone wants to go to Addisons & wait in lines.  They are bringing more stuff out tomorrow, Sunday & I hear on Monday prices go way down.  Here is the add on craigslist.  Have fun. 

Comments

[pam]

WOW, I've heard about her sales before but never have been to one. This is making me feel a little uneasy, since I kind of want to go, kind of not. Yikes. The ad has some amazing things on it. Can't wait tosee what you got!

[pam]

Oh and how's this for crazy, the code to type in was the initials for my maiden name. Weird.