Retro CoMO

Orange Chair.  Metal frame with orange cushions.

$25 in Jefferson City.  Here’s the link: Orange Eames-Era Chair.

Formica Table and Chairs.  Black and white.  I can’t tell from the pictures if there are rips in the white part of the chairs, but the seller seems chatty and would probably tell you.

$150 in Centralia (about 20 miles northeast of Columbia).  Here’s the link: 50’s Stylish Table & 4 Chair Set.

Vintage Chest of Drawers.  Good price and the shape is really cool.

$60 (location isn’t specified).

Here’s the link: Vintage Chest of Drawers.

Vintage Zenith stereo console available in Columbia.  The original television has been replaced with a newer model, and the turntable needs a new belt.  Otherwise in good condition.

$200 in Columbia.

Here’s the link:  HiFi Stereo Console.

Heywood-Wakefield.  The seller says there are four pieces for the price, but does not list what pieces there are or what the price is for each.  They are also in rough shape.  But the price doesn’t seem unreasonable for four pieces and the seller is willing to negotiate.

$750 in Harrisburg, Missouri (about twenty miles northwest of Columbia).  Here’s the link: Heywood Wakefield.

Anchor-Hocking Vintage Kitchenware.  There’s something about the brown pyrex color of these that screams 1970s to me.  And I love it!

$5 in someplace near Boonville or Fayette (I’m guessing).  Here’s the link: Anchor Hocking.

White Star Gas Range.  Yellow and looks pretty cool!  I like the doors on the side.  Are they storage?

$250 in Columbia.  Here’s the link: Vintage yellow gas stove.

Desk and Chair.  1950s vintage chair and desk.  Looks like it has a nice small footprint.  I love the details like the hairpin legs and handles on the desk, and what looks like a mottled gray color to the vinyl on the chair.  Cute!

$50 in Jeff City.  Here’s the link: Retro desk and chair.

Here are some local eBay auctions that are ending in a few days.  The sellers are around Columbia, so you should be able to pick them up without paying for shipping (though you can’t always depend on that- you should contact the seller to be sure before you bid).

Library Chairs in Columbia.  Bids starting at $59.00.

Here’s the link: 2 Eames-style Mid-Century 1960s wooden chairs.

Thonet Chairs in Columbia.  Bids starting at $99.00.

Here’s the link: 2x Vintage Mid-Century Eames Style Thonet Chairs.

Swag Lamp.  Bids starting at $19.99.

Here’s the link: Extraordinary Swag Hanging Light.

Danish Modern china cabinet available in Columbia.  It’s hard to tell what the condition is, but the price isn’t bad.  Available at a local thrift shop, which may even have delivery if you’re lucky.

$100 in Columbia (Millersburg exit).  Here’s the link: China Cabinet.

I have been so lax about posting to this blog for the past few weeks!  Here are a few posts from local Craigslists this week.

Barber Chairs!  You were just rewatching The Man Who Wasn’t There, and you were thinking of opening a retro barber shop.  Here are your chairs!  Vintage 1964, in great shape, super expensive, and they probably weigh three tons each.  So the fact that they’ll deliver within 100 miles of Rolla is a big deal.

$475 each (yikes) in Rolla.  Here’s the link: Barber’s Chairs.

Coffee Table.  This is almost certainly a reproduction, but it’s a classic mid-century design by Isamu Noguchi and would look pretty cool in a lot of modern homes.  More info about the design/designer here.

$100 in SW Columbia.  Here’s the link: Coffee Table.

Vending Machine.  I hesitate to post this because it’s missing the coin mechanism and the key lock, but it does get cold and the lights work, so hmm.  It seems expensive (and heavy) to get something like this if you can’t hit the button and have the soda drop out, but maybe it sounds good to you!

$250 in Columbia.  Here’s the link: Vintage Pepsi Vending Machine.

I am playing catch-up this week after a few weeks of illness and malaise and recuperation.  Sorry for the absence, though I have done a few searches in the meantime and I haven’t seen that we’ve missed much.  But look what is still available down in Osage Beach!  Why is this still waiting around when it should be all loved up in a new somebody’s house?  Lemon yellow vinyl, folks!  I don’t want to see this one posted again.  It makes me sad because it’s too gorgeous for words.  Go buy it.

Retro Kitchen Dinette Set (Lake of the Ozarks Craigslist).  I love lemon yellow vinyl from the 1960s.

You know what?  I’ll decorate your entire sunroom for you.  Buy this and that fantastic lemon yellow bar down at Funtiques in Springfield, and you’ve got yourself a room.  Then you have to invite me over.  I will wear a beehive and a muumuu and frosted pink lipstick and we will drink lemonade (or, ooh, let’s have Tom Collinses) together while we ignore our children and smoke skinny cigarettes.  And that is a crazy fantasy because I don’t have any kids and I don’t smoke.  But if you bought all this for your house, I would rent a child to ignore with you, and then I would pretend to smoke skinny cigarettes.  We would have a great time, you and me, in your sunroom.

Here is the bar you need:

Ooh, buy that TV too.  We can watch soap operas on it.  I don’t like soap operas, but we can’t not watch soap operas on that TV in this fictional room at your house.  (Like how this is all happening at your house?)  Anything else would be wrong and ridiculous.

And here is a swag lamp that you can hang up in there:

Vintage Swag Lamp (Columbia Craigslist).

This is making me ache for summer!  And I even love winter, so I don’t know what that’s about.  Lemonade and swimming pools and white plastic sunglasses.  I swear, you and I will be best friends because I will want to hang out in your lemon yellow sunroom all the time.

How’s it coming?  Bought this stuff yet?  Let me know the minute you do.

I would blame all of this on lingering effects of the flu, but honestly this is just how I get around lemon yellow vintage 60s stuff.  It makes me giddy with delight.

Welcome to 2010!

I found a few odd items on Craigslist this week that I thought I would share.  Maybe you are in dire need of something like this!

Something like a Detecto Baby Scale!  Maybe you have a plethora of babies that you need to weigh on a regular basis.  I don’t know your life.  It has a 30-lb capacity, so maybe you could weigh small dogs and cats and random household objects.  I just like that it’s blue and kind of stylish and has the name “Detecto”.

$50 in Columbia.  Here’s the link: Detecto Baby Scale.

Hutch.  This looks like a nice piece with the glass and the tapered legs, and a bottle of Restor-A-Finish would probably clean up most of the dings and scratches without too much trouble.  And these don’t come up that often in this area, though the price still seems a little high.  But I am not a dealer.

$300 in Eldon.  Here’s the link: Hutch.

Drainboard and Sink.  I recently saw something like this installed in a beautiful new kitchen.  It was integrated seamlessly into the countertops and cabinetry, and looked really cool.  There’s a lot to be said about a nice sink like this with the drainboard.  We had one growing up, and there was never any fear of water ruining the countertops around the sink.  Something to think about!  (And if you buy this and put it in your vintage house, you better send me the pictures.)

$125 in Jefferson City.  Here’s the link: Antique Vintage Drainboard Kitchen Sink.

Waterfall Bedroom Set.  I have a love for the cheap waterfall bedroom sets of the 1930s & 1940s, mostly because I have a set in my own house (some of the first furniture I ever bought for myself when I was in college).  This stuff is hard to refinish because of the veneer, but mine cleaned up beautifully with Restor-A-Finish.  Included in the set is a highboy dresser, a vanity with seat, and a full size bed.

$450 in Hannibal.  Here’s the link: 30’s/40’s Curved Front Bedroom Set.

End Table.  Tiered, with veneer and tapered legs, but I like the hourglass shape to the supports on the top.  Nice!

$10 in Columbia.  Here’s the link: Vintage End Table.

Jeannette Carnival Egg Nog Bowl.  You were going to swig the eggnog directly from the cardboard carton, I know, but this is much more festive.  Complete with bowl and six cups.

$20 in Columbia.  Here’s the link: Jeannette Carnival Egg Nog Set.

Desk.  Looks like an industrial style with tapered legs, and not too huge.

$30 in Columbia.  Here’s the link: Desk.

File Cabinet.  Heavy duty, perfect for craft supplies.

$10 in Columbia.  Here’s the link: File Cabinet.