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What Will You Find In Store ?

Pictures taken a couple of years ago, below feature a sample of vendors and their items which you typically find inside the Design Archives™ Emporium:


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Black Dresses

[Archive gallery] An essential staple of every good wardrobe – The black dress…




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Her Name was Ollie Belle

Have you see The Help? I read the book and saw the movie, so when Octavia Spencer won her Golden Globe and brought the house to tears I remembered a day when I was little. I was probably 4 years …



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Christmas 1934

As Bob Dylan said, the Times They Are A Changin, and I mean this in the nicest sort of way. As a historian of sorts, a scavenger, an urban archeologist, a hunter and gatherer of remnants and particles of the …



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The Best Things in Life are Free

The Ink Spots the Best Things in Life Are Free      (please enjoy their music while you read this post) I was thinking back to one of the most unusual estates that I ever had the pleasure of investigating and i …


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SEPT 1 IS THE TENTH ANNIVERSARY

Design Archives opened on Sept 1, 2001. I can’t believe it, but I have survived for ten years! There have been a couple of moves, which is major for a vintage store because there are tons and tons of inventory …