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In addition to Architectural Artifacts and Salvage One, two well known places for this intriguing kind of salvage, there's a new kid in town, Olde Good Things at 1819 W. Grand Av.
In addition to vintage building artifacts which right now include such merchandise as a quantity of marble mantels from The Plaza Hotel in NYC and varied remnants from Staten Island 
ferry boats, the company makes mirrors and panels from vintage tin ceilings at their warehouse in Scranton. A group of Amish workers fashions large decorative stars from recycled tin roof material. Located there also is an iron shop where custom items such as headboards and tables are made. Custom flooring from salvaged old beams and barnwood are available from the wood shop.
When I stopped off the other day, Paul Szostak and Martin Warren (at left and right in photo) were lunching but took time off to tell me and my friend Susann, also in photo, about the biz. Both are members of the Church of Bible Understanding. Olde Good Things began about ten years ago with a table at the Chelsea Flea Market in NYC. This new outpost in Chicago is the latest of a series of like locations on the East Coast and in L.A. where the Church has a presence. All are owned by the Church and the proceeds of sales, explained Paul, go to three orphanages in Haiti which house approximately 260 children.
Grand Av., by the way is really beginning to "happen." New places are opening rapidly and the street definitely offers an aura of being just discovered.
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