Thrifty Finds

In the beginning of June we went to a super duper church basement sale in St-Zotique ,Québec about 30 minutes west of Ile Perrot.

It was rainy, so rainy but we managed to score a couple of cool finds.

I'm pretty sure I'll be keeping this one. So far every one I see, I put in the store and they always sell pretty fast. I have 2 small santas but this is my first small snowman blowmold.

For 1$ what's not to like?

I also snatched this sweet orange juice serving set for a song. This is already in the store...1961 Good Morning Juice Serving Set by Napcoware...barely used...makes you wonder!

And this...well I should say these because we got 4. One orange, one white and 2 turquoise...

Stackable plastic and metal chairs from the 60's.

From Plastique Provincial who were best know to make the classic plastic motel chair in these parts....

This is the Solair chair in designed in Montreal in 1972.

They sold hundreds of thousands and I would die to put my thrifty hands on some.

They are still in production but these days they would set you back about 100$ each!

We gor ours for 12$ for 4. SWEET!

Which reminds me that I have a really cool turquoise spatter melamine serving plater still in the car trunk!

Have a great night :)  

  

The end of an era

I was really sad and disturbed to learn last monday that one of the area's 'landmark' burned to the ground.

The Miss Dorion motel is no more. This was the cheapest, ickiest dive of a motel and nude dancer bar.

I've blogged about it before. I don't know what fascinated me about this place....Was it this sign?

I have a feeling it's related to my side show fascination....

This was in better days.

Everytime we would drive by I had a wise crack remark to make. And on the rare times I failed to pass a comment Dan would ask me if I was ok.

Since the its demise I've learned that the nude dancers only arrived in the early 90's before it was some kind of show place.

When  I first saw it it not only had an inground pool and a chip wagon so you could catch some exotic dancing, hang around the pool and eat fresh french fries....How classy is that? LOL!

Last year it had a 'makeover'....the owners slapped some ugly ass siding and not on all sides of the building.

See? the siding looks like fake rock. This is a pic from August when the Miss Dorion had a minor fire.

Mind you I wasn't aware of that! It had been closed and for sale since then.

Last saturday I made a special detour to witness the damage.

Only the pool is left.

A big pile of rubble. It does smell like arson!

All gone!

I sure am gonna miss bitching about you!

Will a condo tower replace you? If so I'll be there with snide remarks ready!