Favourite Finds from The Old Barn Antique Mall

Filed under just pictures, stuff i like, travels

While visiting Kamran’s parents this year and last, we visited The Old Barn Antique Mall in nearby San Juan Capistrano, a nearly block-long building split into themed rooms and stuffed with oddities and antiques from flapper dresses to cowboys’ cast iron cookpots to, well, whatever these things are:


Groin!


Really? You thought Penetrene was much better than Penorub?

Everything’s fairly overpriced for anyone used to “antiquing” at the thrift store, but really, where else are you going to find your holographic posters that morph from babies into skeletons depending on how you look at them?

9 Comments

  1. Jessica R. says:

    Those doll parts and heads in a jar are just creepy. What a fantastic little shop.

  2. An old card catalog filled with doll parts. Genius!

  3. Serial says:

    Great. Now I have Courtney Love’s voice in my head. Thanks a LOT.

  4. Cassie says:

    I’m feeling a little jipped. My mom used to own an Antique store and she never had a drawer filled with doll parts.

  5. How bizarre! I was just getting pieces put together for a specimen jar type-o-image… I swear!
    I just spent half a day peeling the label of a jar of pasta sauce only to be foiled by witch’s butter! BLAST!
    :)

  6. Tracey says:

    I sure love me some nosegroin.

  7. Lisa says:

    Those doll heads totally freak me out.

  8. Dishy says:

    We had to drive down to Boston on Sunday and on the way home stopped in Newburyport, Mass. We wandered through a great “old stuff” place – a cross between a swap meet/yard sale/vintage finds/antiques mart. Always the est way to pass a Sunday afternoon. Love your photos, Katie. SO glad you’re back!

  9. Dishy says:

    PS: what man wouldn’t buy penorub? none, that’s the truth.