Sentimental Journey Antiques was one of the places I visited. It is close to the Harry S Truman library. The place has a ton of clocks (a room full of them). I talked to the old man who was in the room about the lighters that were displayed in the center. There is also a center room which has a lot of glass display cases. It seemed that most of it was jewelry but some glassware in there as well. It wasn't anything I was in the mood to look through, but I made a quick pass. The back room is an old garage-looking room. That's fitting since the very back shelves were full of old car parts (tail lights, chrome panels, and such). I did not find anything I needed, but I will definitely bring the wife along the next time since I think she would find some stuff she liked there.
Independence, Missouri, has an old square, and I thought I would find several antique stores on it, similar to Clinton, Missouri's square. I was wrong. I did find The Keeping Room and Serendipity Antique Shop right next to each other. The Keeping Room is in a neat old building. It has a TON of glassware. It is an antique store my mother would enjoy (and probably the wife), but I did not find too much. The only thing that really caught my eye was the set of The Hardy Boys books on one of the shelves. Serendipity has the same feel to it. Both places had some interesting antiques, but nothing my style. The square did have a store dedicated to man caves called Wild About Harry, but I will not go into that since it was not truly antiques (still a neat store).
Just off of the square (a block to the south), I found Uztabz Antiques & Collectibles. This place is small but full of stuff to dig through. There are two small rooms in the back of the store, and they are crammed full of things. There is also a basement that has random stuff in it. The owner is super nice and willing to talk.
I knew Grain Valley used to have several antique shops on Main St, and I figured I would check it out since I have not been there for four years. There are two shops there now (used to be four). The first shop is Primitives Plus. It is a small shop but it has quite a few antiques. Once again, it isn't my style, but I know my wife and mother like to wander through it. The other shop is Main Street Mall Antiques. Looks are deceiving on this place because it is bigger than it looks from the outside. It is a little mall-style antique store, and there is a lot to look at. One booth has hundreds of Golden Books. There is another booth with a wooden ice box. It is a place where it is hard to determine what you might find while walking through it.
Oak Grove has one antique store on the main drag through town, and it is called The Scavenger Hunt. There is not much information about the shop online, so I was lucky to find it when it was open! The shop is owned and operated by a guy and his mother, and it is mostly their stuff. The guy seems to have a nerdy side to him, which I love to see. There are toys, comic books, lighters, glassware, records, and much more. The owner is very friendly, and that is always nice to find. I found an Aquaman glass from the Pepsi Moon Series, which I had to have.
The wife and I went to Odessa. There is a new spot downtown called Silver Fox. It was new when we went there, and so it had some growing to do. The items seemed a little too fancy for our taste, but we still looked around at everything.
We then hopped across the street to go to P. Pickers since she was not able to join me when I went last time. She found a glass bottle which said "Urine Specimen Bottle." Yes, we bought that because she thought it was cute. She also found a very nice crate for cheap, so we could not pass on that since the wife LOVES crates. We have an entire shelf built out of crates, so it is a nice addition to the home.
Until next time... Happy Hunting!
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