Generations Antiques

Generations Antiques is antique store. We've been here for nine and a half years and we sell antiques, vintage and collectibles. We've expanded also a couple years ago. Were double our size that were originally. I have been around antiques my entire life. When I was young, my dad and I, we would go to auctions, go to estate sales and buy stuff. He was the collector and I was just the person that was going with him. But I learned a little bit. The range of things that you're going to find is anything that you would find in someone's house at some point, or their garage, their barn, that type of thing. There's going to be a lot of household items, a lot of little collectibles that people The popular things are what you relate to as a person. And so one of the very first things that people relate to is their childhood and toys. And so you'll find all sorts of different toys here, model trains, toy cars, die-cast cars, red-line hot wheel cars are a really big thing, but I also do have regular hot wheel cars, radios, musical items. We go into cameras and glassware, all sorts of different glassware, not china, because china is not really considered something that are desirable anymore, because nowadays there's not too many families that are sitting down with their formal china that they would have a Thanksgiving or Christmas that often. And so that's hard to get sold. But a glassware that is mostly colored glass, so amberina glass, red glass, blue glass, green glass, all sorts of different combinations. And sometimes it's fancy glass, and sometimes it's just really plain glass. I sit here, I'm walking around, and I hear people laughing and joking and saying, again, this is something that I remember my grandmother had, and then they talk about the story of it, and that it might have broke or something And here it is, here's another piece that I want to buy that, or they just want to think about that. And maybe their child's with them, and they tell that story to their child. So that child can sort of see that. And the younger kids, the younger 20s and 30s are coming in here. So that's the other nice thing. With us being around for nine and a half years at this point, we've had to adjust what we sell here, because if we do not adjust with the customers coming into the shop, and what they're looking for, we won't be in business any longer. So we have to make sure that we're matching their needs. They're looking for knickknacks, some people call them chachkies, specific things that they would use within the household in that. I do tell people when I'm buying their stuff, they'really sad that they're giving away their mom'stuff or their father'stuff. It's very sentimental to them. I tell them, well, I'm not the person that is going to keep it and cherish it, but I'm going to find that person. And that's what, for the most part, really makes them happy about that. It's going to get passed down to somebody, not in their family, but to somebody else.