My sister Mary Evelyn is a vintage, antique, junk lover such as myself (as if you didn't know that already!). She is also a blog frequenter which led her to find out about a certain junk hotspot from a blog called Petticoat Junktion. The lady who writes this blog raves about her favorite junk store. It is in Hopkinsville Kentucky which isn't very local for us but still a spotlight and while yard sailing two Fridays ago and having a not so good day of it we gps'd it and decided to make a go.
It took us a little over an hour to get there and, as we found out, was worth our drive. When we got there is was obvious we were at the right place. It took us a bit to even go inside because there was so much furniture outside. Furniture that needed a new life, and windows, and two trucks that had yet to be unloaded. We decided to go inside and oh my..... in all my days of junking I have never seen so much stuff crammed packed. That really isn't a bad thing to say. You had to be careful touching things because when you did something else would fall over. It is a true junk store with many, many treasures to be found. The gentleman who owns it was there along with his sisters and they were all just as pleasant as they could be. Mr. Butler has been in business there for more than 30 years!
We wound up going back outside to find Mr. Butler unloading the trucks and got first dibs on several items including a chair, dressing table with mirror, corner shelf, cabinet and two rusty animal traps. The pricing is on the very reasonable side too. Our junky hearts were very satisfied.
We had a great time but were on a time limit. Needless to say.. we will be back!
And since it was a spur of the moment trip I did not have my camera. Ugh! I had to take pictures with my flip phone which we know aren't so good.
Butler's Antiques
601 E. 17th St
Hopkinsville, KY 42240
I don't think anyone has seen the bottom of this pile of tools since they opened!
I was afraid to touch it!
This is our home junk store. We love it as artusts and collectors. We stop here first if we have any money in our pocket. For something we need, project pieces or just good conversation. They are always fair and I love to dig around and see what we unearth. You just wont find a placeike it anywhere. So much variety and really old cool stuff
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