This first blog entry is of our travels on October 30th 2017 and shows the less impressive finds along Route 112.
I had passed this card store a lot and hoped it's ancient "Hallmark Cards" sign was a silent indicator of hordes of vintage Halloween decor...but such was not the case.
Our next stop was another promising store along Route 112, but would it have Halloween decorations inside...
One thing we had learned throughout our travels was that for each Holiday, certain ones are harder to find decorations of. The biggest holiday to these stores was probably Christmas so those we typically find very easily, Thanksgiving being particularly sparse but Halloween a little more prevalent. So, we still need to check these stores out this month and in December to see if they have that stuff instead.
Here is the last store we went to along Route 112 and a theory of ours was proven true through the recounts of each store owner...
We had long since thought that since Hallmark decorations were amidst the other vintage stuff, it meant those stores were at one time Hallmark Card Stores. Well, after Nolan spoke to each of the Route 112 store owners he confirmed that fact. Each store had once been a Hallmark store, but when the times changed they had to change too. Hallmark does not permit the sale of Cigarettes, lotto tickets and other convience store products inside their stores and then had to drop their franchisee status to survive.
Being in the area, Nolan really wanted to visit Ronjo's Magic & Costume Shop that was also located on Route 112, so that was our next stop.
Not much in the way of vintage Halloween decorations, but a staple of the area and definitely a stop to check out and give your business to.
After a few disappointments, I was beginning to wonder if we had indeed waited too long and all the vintage stuff had either been sold or simply diacarded. Well, our luck was about to change. Stay tuned!
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