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| - I love road side signs for two reasons. The first reason - the one and only time I was ever challenged to throw empty beer bottles at road signs in a moving vehicle, I hit 3 outta 5 signs. First. Time. And the other reason is the best deals often start with a road side sign.
Off Blackfoot Trail, there is a (extremely large) road side sign. "Antiques Mall (arrow arrow arrow arrow arrow)" We took the bait, because we're big adventure seekers and took the road less travelled.
First and foremost, Inside Avenue Antiques has a funny parking lot, right underneath some very active, potentially sensitive power lines. Like - the hair on my arms vibrating and my shins felt weird. Ewwy.
The front door makes a bold proclamation that states, very concisely I'll admit, "Vintage Browsers Paradise". And they are true to their word. Essentially it's a warehouse that rents out permanent stalls to antiques dealers from around Southern Alberta. Surprisingly and not surprisingly there are tons of deals and treasures to be found. Some of it priced the way antique dealers from small towns price stuff for city folk. And other stuff is cute, quaint and affordable.
As far as selection and variety - well! Lots of your standards, glass jars, old typewriters, sewing machines and glass jars. But then there was the vintage comic book stall complete with dirty magazines. ScandeLOUS. Another stall was decked out in army paraphernalia. Another stall had a signed that informed me their clocks were politically correct. I have no idea what that means.
It's no Antique Road Show but they live up to their word - it's a vintage Browser's paradise.
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