Ken's Photography and Travel Blog

On a road trip to Santa Fe, NM and Colorado, our first night stop over in route was in Lubbock, TX.  Lubbock is not along the shortest route to our final destinations, but I decided a new route was desirable, having often repeated the same route in that direction.

After checking into our motel, we had a little time to kill before dinner.  Looking around for something to do, my wife found a number of her favorite type places to visit, antique malls.  So we picked one that was only a few miles away and was still open, but closing soon.

I found a number of old cameras to inspect and photograph with my iPhone.

It is amazing how many different makes, models and designs there were in the earlier days of photography.

In my high school days and on into college years, I worked in an old style drug store in a small town.  The store had only two cash registers, both manual types, similar to, but more basic than those in the images in this post, one small one and one larger one.

This particular antique store had old style drugstore furnishings, including many glass display counters and behind the counter shelves with sliding glass doors, similar to those in the store in which I worked.  I only recently learned that the reason for such furnishings were that people were not trusted to have access to the products and open style shelving is a relatively recent development, first introduced in Piggly Wiggly grocery stores in the early 1900.

These bottles still contain liquid, although they are no longer full.  I’m guessing the wine is no longer good, even though it is well aged.

Many other beverage types and brands are always found in these old stuff stores.  Coffee seems to be one of the favorites.

Those stripes look black to me.  Maybe it is navy blue?

Tobacco related items are also popular.  I did not recall Diana Lynn, which prompted me to do a brief internet research.  I’m thankful that the internet allows for such easy research on almost any topic from almost anywhere.  No library browsing required.  If not for this old advertising poster, I might never have known anything about Diana Lynn.

My wife recently purchased an old Singer sewing machine.  It is the same model as her mom used, so the purchase was based upon nostalgia.  The machine works, but I replaced one of the electric cords, since the original one looked hazardous.  I had to refinish an old cabinet for the machine, too.  But not the original cabinet that the machine came in, since that one was not acceptable to my wife.  Now we have an extra sewing machine in our garage that was in the refinished cabinet.  Contact me if you are in the market for a sewing machine, no reasonable offer will be refused.  Heck, I’ll even give it away to anyone that will take it away.

Some items in this store were subject to censorship.

This is enough to drive one to drink.

But here is an ice box to keep our beer cold:

I hope to have regained my sanity before the next post.

Ken