For this week’s Shopping Locally post, I thought I’d stop in at Urban Artifacts.
It’s been a while since I’ve been in there, so let’s go and take a look at one of Peoria’s most unique and original shops.
Here we are at their location located on Sheridan Road near the corner of West Main Street.
The sign says that they are open, so let’s go inside and begin this week’s Locally Shopping adventure!
The store is huge and let’s take a look around in here.
There’s some vintage sodas you can purchase in here and a vintage Pac Man game.
This album display caught my eye as I found two of my own albums displayed there.
I sold most of my record collection to Craig Moore the owner of Younger Than Yesterday records back in 1993 before I moved to New York City and these are two of those records. I recognize them because of the unique magic marker artwork on them. I used to draw on all of my albums and it drove Craig crazy because he said it drew the price of them down.
Crazy to have come full circle with these record albums today!
Nice to see postcards from my friend Chelsie Tamms from Lettering Works in here!
There’s so much interesting and vintage inventory in here it really blows your mind!
It’s amazing to wander around and see all of the unique vintage items for sale in here.
Check out the I Love Lucy Vitameatavegamin sign. I wonder if that cures Covid 19? It’s got to work better than these choices. Seriously, just go get vaccinated!
There’s even more items back here in the Warehouse section of the store.
I love all of the large signage on display here in the store.
They recently acquired the Sky Harbor Steak House sign and nice to see that lit up in the back room here at Urban Artifacts.
Here’s a shot from the back of the store and a collection of local stickers celebrating iconic Peoria locations like Lums, Bowl-Mor, WWCT 106, Vanna Whitewall, Pepe Taco and more.
There’s Gina at the check-out desk holding up the albums that I’m buying back!
Great to see her again and it was just her birthday recently! Happy birthday, Gina and thanks to Urban Artifacts for giving Peoria such a cool shopping experience!
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925 N. Sheridan Road
Peoria
309-361-7430
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