VERDICT: WE GAVE 3 OUT OF 5 TICKETS AND HERE’S WHY!
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This article is part of our 🚗 48 Hr Washington USA Road Trip series, exploring Leavenworth, La Conner and the Washington coastline. Read the complete itinerary here.
Quaint Bavarian Village – Leavenworth: ✅
Marriott Bonvoy, Wenatchee: ✅
Coastal Town – La Conner : ✅
Wander Through Nasty Jacks Antiques: ✅
Explore Seaside Resort – Birch Bay: ✅
Nasty Jacks Antiques, La Conner, Washington, USA – so much to look at!
Drive into La Conner, Washington, USA, and on the corner of First & Morris Streets is a treat…
There’s a two-storey antique store, with the tattoo-ish looking signs, letting you know you’ve arrived at none other than Nasty Jacks Antiques.
Each time we visit we have to wander through the two floors of collections to see what they’ve found since our last stopover.
From the glass bottle collection, to their HUGE selection of Time magazines & comic books, to china & silverware, the heavy antique furnishings (my favourites are always the old roll top desks & library card file cabinets… oh! and the old typewriters!), to the many, many pieces of art… there is something here to intrigue you for sure.
Before you even go inside, there’s an All Knowing Zoltar fortune telling machine – that actually works! Next to it is one of those penny press machines that stamps your penny with a local design.
There’s some really cool handblown glass buoys, tons of old keys, record albums, copious amounts of Mad magazines, jewelry – both costume & real, quite a lot of antique looking yet modern signs (Route 66, Chevrolet, gas station logos, etc), antique clocks, and well… you just really need to see the rest for yourself, you won’t be disappointed!
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