Like a long lost friend...[REVISED]
I was sitting here, minding my own business (literally!), planning for an August trip to Bahstahn* when, as I rummaged through assorted websites I ran across a factoid that left me stunned with glee:
LouLou's Lost & Found is not dead. Two (three?) trips ago, I was ambling down Newbury St. with the Not Deformed Poppy when I saw the premises for LouLou's held a completely different business. I assumed the very worst and dripping with disappointment, all I could muster was a purchase at a vintage bookstore.
But LouLou lives! Looky: Loulou's Lost & Found 0 Brattle St - Cambridge, MA. Just a short hop on, I'm guessing, the Red (appropriate for something that provides service to Cantabridgians, yes?) Line and I am there. Woo hoo.
The thing about LouLou's is that it is THE hippest, coolest antique/thrift shop in the known universe. A long time ago, I foolishly** passed up a chance to pick up--dirt cheap, no less--a full set of Disneyland plates made in the late 1950s by Limoges. The gold was still intact and not one piece was chipped. I think each place setting (bread plate, salad plate, dessert plate, large and small bowls and dinner plate) was something along the lines of $8.99. In my own defense, I was younger then (by 6-7 years) and, by definition, immeasurably less wise.
-Joke
* Which might not take place until, I think, October; mostly because my wife has seemingly roped me into a charity event where I might have to do work I don't want to do, with people I don't wish to see, at a date when I had planned to be elsewhere, held at a place I'm not eager to see filled with said people. Don't ask. This has me pretty pissy.
** I'm not so big on regret, so this statement actually carries more weight than you might otherwise think it would.
LouLou's Lost & Found is not dead. Two (three?) trips ago, I was ambling down Newbury St. with the Not Deformed Poppy when I saw the premises for LouLou's held a completely different business. I assumed the very worst and dripping with disappointment, all I could muster was a purchase at a vintage bookstore.
But LouLou lives! Looky: Loulou's Lost & Found 0 Brattle St - Cambridge, MA. Just a short hop on, I'm guessing, the Red (appropriate for something that provides service to Cantabridgians, yes?) Line and I am there. Woo hoo.
The thing about LouLou's is that it is THE hippest, coolest antique/thrift shop in the known universe. A long time ago, I foolishly** passed up a chance to pick up--dirt cheap, no less--a full set of Disneyland plates made in the late 1950s by Limoges. The gold was still intact and not one piece was chipped. I think each place setting (bread plate, salad plate, dessert plate, large and small bowls and dinner plate) was something along the lines of $8.99. In my own defense, I was younger then (by 6-7 years) and, by definition, immeasurably less wise.
-Joke
* Which might not take place until, I think, October; mostly because my wife has seemingly roped me into a charity event where I might have to do work I don't want to do, with people I don't wish to see, at a date when I had planned to be elsewhere, held at a place I'm not eager to see filled with said people. Don't ask. This has me pretty pissy.
** I'm not so big on regret, so this statement actually carries more weight than you might otherwise think it would.
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Um ... so ... anyone out there up for a trip to New Hampshire?
--P.