If our spare time wasn't busy enough at the moment, we decided to make a 100 mile trip up north to Bay City to poke around Michigan's largest antiques mall. The Bay Antiques Center covers an entire block and is crammed full of vintage goodies from cookbooks to old hinges, vinyl to road signs, you could seriously spend hours there.
Housed in what was once a hardware store, the store holds over 60,000 square feet of offerings across three levels. In fact there's so much we actually antiqued out, there was just so much you could go through, flick though and devour that it's hard to take it all in. There's lengths of walls filled with stacks of vintage doors to pillars, piles of old letter presses, old door knobs and tiles - it's a perfect place if you're thinking of fixing up an old home and need some original pieces. We left with a bag full of vintage cookbooks and some more 1970's/1980's metal on vinyl - all in all a very worth while trip.
Prior to wandering around the antiques mall we ate lunch beside the iced over river in the Veterans Memorial park and had a quick drive around the old part of town, certainly going to be a place to check back in the warmer months -5C wasn't the perfect weather for a picnic or wander around I have to admit!
The Bay Antiques Center can be found at;
1010 N. Water St, Bay City, Michigan
I love antiquing! It's my moms favorite thing to do, which in turn has become a love of mine!
ReplyDeleteIt's certainly a fun (and expensive!) hobby of ours, we get spoilt with estate sales so it's nice to have a change of seeing vintage/antiques in a store all laid out after than in a dark and damp basement!
Deleteyou always find the cutest most picturesque places! x
ReplyDeleteWe're really spot here in Michigan for scenic places that's for sure.
DeleteThat town looks so clean and neat and tidy - my kind of place! x
ReplyDeleteThere's some gorgeous clean towns in Michigan worth visiting.
DeleteThe river looks so lovely! 60,000 square feet?! That's so much, almost too much to be fun. I love going places that have loads of one thing, like antiques, big car boot sales, but sometimes it just gets too much.
ReplyDeleteSounds like a much needed break from the house hunting! :)
Yeah after a while your eyes get tried of trying to hunt things out especially with all the rows of books, vinyls and magazines, it's like you don't know where to look first. But yes, a very welcome break from the stress of house hunting and trying to work out number figures that are bigger than I can get my head around!
DeleteThat's where I was born. If you like pizza type things, you need to check out Tony's.
ReplyDeleteI love a bit of vintage - especially if it relates to things my grandmother had. Recently bought a Mouli cheese grater just like she had (from 1952)!
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