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St. Vincent [Grand Rapids MI]

Headed up to Grand Rapids yet again late in 2016 and was able to pull off one more (successful!) dig before the clock strikes midnight.  I have thoroughly hunted the entire city and documented it well…so much so, that I haven’t bothered to look at much of anything for a while.  This time I decided […]

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Record Theatre [Buffalo NY]

I visited Buffalo on the same work related issue almost exactly two months prior.  This time I came back not for a high pressure meeting (October’s work) but a high pressure session of service work for which I predicted many people would look over my shoulder and nit pick me half to death.  But before […]

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Minimizing Minneapolis’ Mighty Millieu

I’ve been up to Minnesota a few times, but this trip was unique.  I flew in but did not have a rental car so I was reliant on my local colleagues to cart me around.  When that ended, I was on my own – which is fine with me.  This time I was in the […]

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Back to Battle Creek (and GR) + three year anniversary!

Before I begin today’s tale, just wanted to acknowledge that just a couple weeks ago is the three year anniversary of my first post on this blog, which now totals nearly 300 posts.  This post is the 150th tagged ‘thrift store’ so just to do some very, very rough math at 25 records each, that […]

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US-1 is the Maine Line

I’ve visited New Hampshire before and did a good job working through Manchester and also some of Portsmouth.  I found myself back in Portsmouth but I knew there was little to nothing left there so I turned my eyes north to Maine.  Unbelievably, I found an array of thrift stores on the main road out […]