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Good Stuff for Fathers' Day

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Vintages always has good stuff for Dads."Stuff" is a technical term in our business. stuff |stəf| noun 1. Matter, material, articles, or activities of a specified or indeterminate kind that are being referred to, indicated, or implied: a pickup truck picked the stuff up | a girl who's good at the technical stuff . 2. A person's belongings, equipment, or baggage: he took his stuff and went . Any way you look at it ... Dads like "stuff" and we've got it. Just what you need for Fathers' Day on Sunday June 15th.  It seems we often take dad's for granted. When the camera is on us we shout or mouth "Hi Mom!" What about Dad? Get Dad something special ... something just for him. We have some great old vintage toys ... trucks, games, cameras ... the "stuff" of yesteryear. Or how about magnifiers, compasses, key chains and money clips? We have those too. And then there are old books,...

Industrial Chic ... Decorating with the past

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Old Paint Brushes Hung in a Vintage Frame ... $125 for this display, but we also have old brushes in stock priced from $9.95 There is something fascinating and recognizable about our industrial past. Time was when America was the world's factory leader ... building more of everything than anyone else ... designing the equipment that built the products ... inventing the very soul of the world's factories. Americans were photographers, painters, cooks and printers, while in our homes, we used the American factory output in our daily lives ... fans, perfumes, corkscrews and keys. If we needed it, it was made in American factories. One popular trend in today's interior design is to use parts from these industrial machines, tools used by the workers in the factories, and items of comfort, or necessity, from the home. The term "industrial chic" has been attached to this genre of design. Old wheels and tools, early cast iron and wooden implements, vintage camera...