Smiles peeps!
Yesterday I needed a fix! A serious thrifting/antiquing fix!
But today my fix was more specific - I needed to visit Jackson Square Mall!
The building that houses the mall has a long history. The original structure of 10,000 sq. ft. was built in 1907. In 1920 an addition was added to bring the building to 47,000 sq. ft.
The design was based on Portuguese and Moorish stylings, and was used as a warehouse storage unit. A cool fact of the building is it's freight elevator was large enough to allow the horse drawn vans to be loaded and taken up to the other 4 floors where the goods were loaded.
The antique mall is housed on the 1st and basement floors.
There are 45 booths in the mall - one on the first floor.
Always looking for blue plates in this booth, great dish collection!
My favorite booths are downstairs, so off we go!
Coming off the stairs, you can see a bit of that huge elevator on the right,
This booth always has great industrial pieces - see that metal tool cabinet , if only The Charmer was larger!
same booth, other side
another area of the booth, I so wanted the locker bin, not my price point!
A booth that always has a nice stash of linens..
Another great booth, lots of cute pieces...
All the booths are nicely staged...
If your ever in the La Grange, IL area, make sure you stop at Jackson Square Mall!
La Grange also has some a really great venue of restaurants to choose from.
Hope you enjoyed the tour!
What are some of your local favorite malls?
Hi, I left a comment on your Awesome Tutorial at Scattered Thoughts just now - thanks so much for the tutorial! (BTW, the link to your blog isn't working, I Googled to find you.) I am in love with your blog, but sigh I have to go to a picnic now, so I added you to my blog roll - I'll be back to read you from Day One to the present and can.not.wait!!! Hugs ~ Mary
Cathy, I so enjoyed going with you to the Antique Mall here through your post, because today was a sad day for sales in my area. I drove and drove and nobody had anything decent and some sales weren't even there that should have been. After all that driving back and forth for nothing, I happened by the gas station and saw that gas had jumped up 20 cents in a week. Just great. I may have to shop vicariously for a while due to high gas prices, so please take your camera along anytime. I'd love to tag along via your images and stories!
Liz
Thank you, thank you for the tour - I loved every moment - our mall is currently moving next door so I cannot wait until my booth is as tidy as these are!
OK I'm officially embarrassed - I do actually read your blog. I just have been out of it this month with all the traveling etc. I'm going to stop by this place the next time I drive down to Oklahoma. That will be soon - can't wait to check this out!
I can see why this is your favorite -- would be mine too! Love the delightful little horse lift fact you threw in. Thanks so much for sharing on Busy Monday.
Looks like a great place to get your fix!!! Wow!
Thanks so much for linking up at I Gotta Create! <3 Christina
How fun and what great things, I love days I get to do things like this! Thanks for sharing at I Freakin did it Friday