Thrifting for Antiques & Vintage Charm in Old World Florida!

We're on a bargain hunt today! Tree-canopied highways lead us to yesteryear in Umatilla, an Old Florida village that has some great deals on antiques and vintage, lurking in crazy old buildings long passed by time. Our first stop is the Old Packing House, a 1910s orange packing center with open walls from the time before air conditioning that now constitutes a two-story vendor mall. There's all sorts of fun in this place, where decorator deals, cast-off clothing and valuable vintage all live in a vendor mall that surprises us with everything from Blenko and Viking glass to Tammis Keefe linens and Belleek porcelain at prices too cheap to leave behind! After an hour or more spent shopping this fun store (and meeting another online reseller who's also getting great deals here), we take the proprietor's dare and go up the road to another early open-air Florida building, a 1930s garage with a hand-scrawled sign announcing that it is Don & Joe's Used Merchandise. This is a true junk store, piled high and deep with everything from used appliances and dusty Coke bottles to surprises like a Peggy Karr fused glass bowl! (Did I just call her Kathy Karr? that's my sister's name, lol.) There aren't many Old South junk stores like this left these days! Then we see it, a nice looking vintage chrome/wood/glass table from the 1970s that looks like it may have sat atop this pile of stuff since it was new. Can we get it for a price we can afford? We take it up front, make our offer and are astonished at the response of the kindly, grizzled old owner of the shop...so much so that we trade him the donation pile we had in the back of the van headed for Salvation Army in gratitude! We go home with an inexpensive lot of cool glass, tasteful porcelain and a fine looking MCM table upon which to display it! Thrifting proves fun and profitable, and we get to see a slice of Old Florida that is mostly gone in this era of massive cookie-cutter developments and theme parks. ———————————————————— ☀️ Do you want more info about an item you own? I am a certified appraiser! Whether you need a "verbal approximation of value" or a "formal written appraisal," I can do it all—in person or remotely. Submit your information here: bit.ly/3kxiNUb ———————————————————— ☀️ Subscribe to my LIVE CHANNEL! bit.ly/3e6wi9B ☀️ Subscribe to my SHORTS CHANNEL! bit.ly/3fkbYoz ☀️ Check out my WEBSITE! bit.ly/3BfVNPt ———————————————————— Are you interested in exclusive content and special perks that help support this channel? ☀️ Become a channel member: bit.ly/32dfTcz ☀️ Join my Patreon community: bit.ly/3xkh4Ix ———————————————————— Follow me on social media, check out my eBay listings, and buy my book! ☀️ Facebook bit.ly/33TG9J9 ☀️ Instagram bit.ly/2KOJcur ☀️ Twitter bit.ly/30BjrU9 ☀️ TikTok bit.ly/3oTA4FQ ☀️ Rumble bit.ly/3QUcffH ☀️ Minds bit.ly/3aWsPcA ☀️ Odysee bit.ly/2ZUep69 ☀️ My eBay listings: ebay.to/2mg7yDM ☀️ My book on Treasure Craft Pottery: bit.ly/3eAfaZM ———————————————————— If you love what we do, consider donating to the channel! ☀️ Buy Me a Coffee: bit.ly/3r7KSUM ☀️ PayPal: bit.ly/3dLxmx3 ☀️ Venmo: bit.ly/380DIHH ☀️ Cash App: bit.ly/3ANanNi ☀️ BTC: bc1qhcx6e3gp5kxv3rx696mhmsqfe0pv3chvpps0ku ☀️ ETH: 0xBbddAF1231944e7E6D0EA097Cb0609F1640537eF ———————————————————— ☀️ Send me stuff: The Antique Nomad PO Box 33 Dawson Springs, KY 42408 ———————————————————— Icons made by: www.flaticon.com/authors/smashicons