Cool Things at Thrift Stores
Are you a thrift shop junkie hoping to score a treasure? For more than 100 years Salvation Army thrift stores from coast to coast have collected donations and sold them to provide its programs with a source of funding.
Recently a Halifax-based artist bought a hard-cover edition of the Robertson Davies play A Jig for the Gypsy at her local Salvation Army thrift store. Inside the book she discovered a 1956 typewritten letter from Davies to a Queen’s University professor declaring his dislike of Metropolitan Opera radio performances.
Other thrift store finds include:
• “The Hidden Staircase” – a Nancy Drew mystery published in 1930.
• a three-inch thick, intricately detailed, illustrated book of surgical practices from the late 1800s.
• a Hawaiian dress made in Honolulu.
• handmade Italian shoes.
• a hand-hooked wool rug.
What’s the neatest thing you’ve found at a thrift store?
