Your store is in my old neighbourhood, and I was thrilled to see the building go from an empty curiosity itself to seeing it now filled! Just found your channel and hope to visit the shop soon.
Oh my goodness Alex!! I live in Eastlake, Ohio!!! Small city along Lake Erie! Curtis Industries was HUGE operation here in town! No longer tho. Curtis Industries, Inc. was founded in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1932 by William Abrams and two of his sons, Morris and Howard, as Clipper Key and Lock Co. The company initially sold several brands of key cutting machines throughout the Cleveland area and the Midwest. In 1934, the Abrams worked together with inventor William Curtis to invent a new key cutting machine that they could manufacture and distribute themselves. The machine was patented, and the company changed its name to Curtis Key Co. and moved to Eastlake, Ohio. The company's focus was on key cutting machines and key blanks, which they both manufactured and sold. What a nice surprise tho!!!!
I could Kiss that Guy who wants to buy a '67 Mustang. I had a coupe, yellow. I got it for my 13th birthday, it was $500, and I rebuilt it with my dad. We had so much fun, it was how I learned how a car worked and how to diagnose and repair it. I started driving it when I was 15. Unfortunately, it was stolen 5 years later. When I was 40 my husband saved up several thousands of dollars to give me enough to buy a car, but they were $30 thousand dollars for a driveable fixer upper. I love all the stuff you got in, in this video, so much neat stuff. I feel like a kid in a candy store watching you open up your surprise boxes. Thank you so much for sharing :-)
I like watching your channel cause you make everything interesting and you don't put ppl down or try to really low ball them. You don't share your financial side of your bussiness which is good.
In England and the UK too, outhouses were dug into bogs. Soft soil, moisture to break it down quickly. So, there's the saying, "going to the bog". Toilet paper is still "bog roll" even though nobody really goes to the bog anymore.
My husband worked for Curtis Keys selling the "blanks" to stores here in L.A. for about a year in the mid-1980s. That was a trip to see that sign. Awesome old wrought iron tools! Great collection.
I am absolutely addicted to watching these videos. I think you, your family and friends are amazing people with huge hearts. I wish travel to Canada from the US was possible, I would love to see you and your shop in person some day.
It is always so interesting watching you open boxes ; feels like a treasure hunt. I had one of those sewing machines as a kid. Lots of dolls clothes got fashioned on it. Keep Safe❤Keep Well❤
My Grandfather had that exact analog animatronic bartender in his basement bar. As kids we loved to see it. My favorite part of the unboxing is seeing all this interesting stuff that has zero plastic, and wrapping made of paper and twine, metal and wood.
The carbonation bottle is a gasogene. I love the projectors; reminds me of old school days. Everyone would yell "Focus" then fall asleep during the film. We had the mechanical bartender. He would be brought down at Christmas to mix his cocktail, and we would watch the smoke come out of his ears after he took a drink. Good finds!
Olympians typewriter...I learned to type with that. Wow, looks like you have some ones little newspaper office. The ship was amazing !! The Black sewing machine, I'd love to own that.
Ooo! Ooo! Miniature Sewing hand-cranked machine! Excited BanDana Gramma can use it to demonstrate sewing projects at Homesteading Shows when there is no electricity. Great haul. Lots of fun to see.
The old projector is cool. Both my kids when in college...son into digital film and daughter photography, media technology....were encouraged to learn, look for, required to know....all about vintage items. They and I have found and donated items to their professors. Some they kept for themselves. Most not totally rare or expensive. But it helps to see the real items. Like ones old camera I found in pristine condition was just a light box. Basically cardboard and a covered lens cap. You had to guess exposure! Kind of Flintstone process. But teacher loved her brining it to share with class. From the 1920s. Also found and still to give to my son the hand crank film camera. No motor, no batteries, charging!
I bought several boxes of plastic models that were packed in the 60s and individually wrapped in newspapers. I appreciated reading the crusty old papers as much as the models themselves.
*Wow what alot of cool stuff, my favourite was the ship it was so cool my dad would of loved that, and i also loved the mini sewing machine, Alex you have the coolest job and shop♥️👍🏼*
4:25 heyyy, Bausch & Lomb! Hails from right here in Rochester, NY. I've seen their family plot in our Mt. Hope Cemetery, keeping Susan B. Anthony & Frederick Douglass company lol
@@bunnymomma12 You're right, it could be! a lot of Kodak stuff was before my time (I'm a 90s baby), so I don't have enough knowledge to be able to tell. I can ALWAYS single out a Brownie camera though! 😁😁😁
I had a small sewing machine like the first one. I also had a portable Singer with all the old accessories. The leather ring on the rewind bobbin wheel was replaced with a same sized automotive ring. Worked wonders.
I loved EVERYTHING in this haul!!! It paid off big time buying the lot sight unseen. Those early Mountain Dew bottles used a variety of hillbilly names in addition to Clem and Gert. We always giggled that the guy in the background is running toward an outhouse.
What a darling little sewing machine! If postage to here wasn't such a killer lol I'd very much consider it. Great exploring/rummaging ... thanks for sharing.
Loved the old book😍 I love very old books great find ...you always find something amazing just a shame I live in the UK or maybe a good job I live so far away as I dont have the any spare budget and I'd be more disappointed not been able to buy anything . Thank you for sharing , keep up the great work
Robin hood Flour was founded in Moose Jaw, in 1909. It was a mainstay in Moose Jaw. The mill had a towering stack and on the front was a very large image of Robin Hood. As kids we always enjoyed seeing it. Alas the plant was sold to a different company and our beloved image of Robin Hood is no more.
What a cool haul! Do many interesting things. It did feel like unwrapping Christmas gifts. I hope you get the old projector running. It’s fun watching those old reels.
The thing is, anyone that follows you knows you have integrity. If you were to find a treasure, you would take care of the seller. So no risk at all to him.
The "Microscope" at 4:20 appears to be a Bausch & Lomb Duboscq Colorimeter. The device was named after Jules Duboscq who invented it. It measures the concentration of a colored component in a solution. You put a sample of known concentration in one tube and the unknown sample in the other. You adjust the lengths of the tubes until the colors match, then the products of the concentration and length for each should be equal. Since you know the concentration of one, you can calculate the concentration of the other. A very useful device.
I love to see all of your amazing finds. Can’t wait until you figure out a way to go through your treasures with more than one hand though. You will be able to explore with the reverence the pieces deserve instead of so haphazardly.
I've got a very similar book like the one you found: It is called "Das fleissige Hausmütterchen", printed in 1928, about 800 pages thick. Found in a "free stuff" box on the sidewalk. This book from Switzerland has about everything you would need back then to successfully manage a household and is not only a treasure trove full of old publicity from local companies which have long vanished, but it holds a vast amout of knowledge: Gardening, medicine, sewing entire clothes from scratch, education of the children, choosing a good home, housekeeping, entire menu selections based on season (even vegetarian one's) and the recipes, cooking methods, keeping livestock and butchering, presenting electric kitchen appliances as the latest technology, and more. The knowledge of making your own stuff is getting lost to time, but this book has it all.
The funny part: You can buy the book I mentioned for only 20 $ from online sellers. They aren't valuable becaue only few realise what knowledge is stored in those books.
You opened the typewriter the correct way at first; someone had it upside-down in the case. Olympias are classics in their own right and very collectable to some people depending on the model. I still have the one that got me through college. It should be latched to the bottom of the case. Normally you wouldn't remove it to use it; you'd just take the lid off.
Great variety of goodies Loved the deposited droppings accompanied by harp music! Ive got a 60's bell & howell? projector I found in an old storage room when I worked at our city's stadium. It had long fallen off the obsolete inventory list. Figured it was a reasonable bonus for shredding decades old payroll records full of mouse poop. Powers up, but needs some sort of repair. Found a user manual for it online too. One of many things on my list to be listed eventually.
Have an apple corer just like that. Been in the family since it was brand new. Works perfectly good as the day it was bought. I've added a small 3D printed blade holder to hold modern box blades which are sharper and hold an edge better than the original one, but other than that, no issues with it. Can't beat good old engineering.
You carry everything that america's Walmart store chain does under one small roof. Simply amazing to me how that you do it or take two hundred items to the auction house and not make hardly any new room. I think that you found the mysterious "sky hook" and have it quietly working for you. Tremendous haul. I do see the possibility of a other start up business that you could run with that is either cars or music pending which that you hold most dear
The lid on the beer mug was primarily against the dust from the unpaved roads caused by horses, buggies and carts passing by. The tea tin is maybe useful for Melissa to keep her coffee in.
The two child vintage sewing machines........................oh how I'd love those. They are so nice. Let me know how much they sold for. The shipping itself would be too much for me, but they are apprecaited.
Your store is in my old neighbourhood, and I was thrilled to see the building go from an empty curiosity itself to seeing it now filled! Just found your channel and hope to visit the shop soon.
I love the little sewing machines, just gorgeous.
As a man in my early 60’s you’ve taken me back to my childhood. Thank You !!!
Oh my goodness Alex!! I live in Eastlake, Ohio!!! Small city along Lake Erie! Curtis Industries was HUGE operation here in town! No longer tho. Curtis Industries, Inc. was founded in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1932 by William Abrams and two of his sons, Morris and Howard, as Clipper Key and Lock Co. The company initially sold several brands of key cutting machines throughout the Cleveland area and the Midwest. In 1934, the Abrams worked together with inventor William Curtis to invent a new key cutting machine that they could manufacture and distribute themselves. The machine was patented, and the company changed its name to Curtis Key Co. and moved to Eastlake, Ohio. The company's focus was on key cutting machines and key blanks, which they both manufactured and sold. What a nice surprise tho!!!!
I could Kiss that Guy who wants to buy a '67 Mustang. I had a coupe, yellow. I got it for my 13th birthday, it was $500, and I rebuilt it with my dad. We had so much fun, it was how I learned how a car worked and how to diagnose and repair it. I started driving it when I was 15. Unfortunately, it was stolen 5 years later. When I was 40 my husband saved up several thousands of dollars to give me enough to buy a car, but they were $30 thousand dollars for a driveable fixer upper.
I love all the stuff you got in, in this video, so much neat stuff. I feel like a kid in a candy store watching you open up your surprise boxes. Thank you so much for sharing :-)
I love watching you unpack boxes!!! Thanks for including us!
I like watching your channel cause you make everything interesting and you don't put ppl down or try to really low ball them. You don't share your financial side of your bussiness which is good.
That Bogg toilet paper holder you found finally answered the question of why my grandpa says "I've gotta use the Bogg"
Scott Anderson LOL.
I said I’ve got to use the Bogg to two elderly women at a church (Kirk) in Scotland they said: Oh he’s a Cherky One!😀
@@FormerMPSGT Thas'nae a subject fer kirk, ya balmpot! ;)
In England and the UK too, outhouses were dug into bogs. Soft soil, moisture to break it down quickly. So, there's the saying, "going to the bog". Toilet paper is still "bog roll" even though nobody really goes to the bog anymore.
My husband worked for Curtis Keys selling the "blanks" to stores here in L.A. for about a year in the mid-1980s. That was a trip to see that sign.
Awesome old wrought iron tools! Great collection.
God Alex, thank you for the peaceful diversion. American cities are in total chaos...I just want to calm down & look inside the box.
I am absolutely addicted to watching these videos. I think you, your family and friends are amazing people with huge hearts. I wish travel to Canada from the US was possible, I would love to see you and your shop in person some day.
I always love watching your videos. Always happy to see a new one. Greetings from California
Man! I would love to be locked up in that store! I love antiques!👌😍👍
Love the videos! It’s crazy the knowledge you have!
Thank you for sharing! This is so much Fun!
It is always so interesting watching you open boxes ; feels like a treasure hunt. I had one of those sewing machines as a kid. Lots of dolls clothes got fashioned on it. Keep Safe❤Keep Well❤
I love how knowledgeable you are about antiques. I hate when someone who should know what items are don't.
My Grandfather had that exact analog animatronic bartender in his basement bar. As kids we loved to see it.
My favorite part of the unboxing is seeing all this interesting stuff that has zero plastic, and wrapping made of paper and twine, metal and wood.
The carbonation bottle is a gasogene. I love the projectors; reminds me of old school days. Everyone would yell "Focus" then fall asleep during the film. We had the mechanical bartender. He would be brought down at Christmas to mix his cocktail, and we would watch the smoke come out of his ears after he took a drink. Good finds!
Oh shoot! I remember that! A friends' dad had one and showed us ,"" the one and only time ever"" how it worked...pretty cool!!
The bartender is Charlie Weaver. His hat is missing.
i love sorting stuff and old things...this is dream goals
Congrats and what a great show to starts my day off. Have a great day.
Fragile - it’s a major award! Our favourite Christmas movie. Love your store and your videos. 👍👍👍
I still miss the old intro music :-) But adore every single video - and always feel energised and inspired after watching. Thanks Alex
So much fun watching you open these boxes
Olympians typewriter...I learned to type with that.
Wow, looks like you have some ones little newspaper office. The ship was amazing !! The Black sewing machine, I'd love to own that.
Finally, tech I know how to use. The projectors are great!!
What a darling little sewing machine 😍. Very fun un-boxing. Love you Alex and your cool store 👵🏻
Awesome haul! I love the little sewing machine. Wished I lived closer, I would have loved that. Im sure it has already found a loving home. tfs
I used old saws as saws. I love that miter box. I used and still use one like it since the 1970s
Ooo! Ooo! Miniature Sewing hand-cranked machine! Excited BanDana Gramma can use it to demonstrate sewing projects at Homesteading Shows when there is no electricity. Great haul. Lots of fun to see.
the little sewing machine really lovely, all the decorations on it.
It amazes me to hear the widespread areas of knowledge you have.
Fascinating haul, Alex. Thanks for sharing.
The old projector is cool. Both my kids when in college...son into digital film and daughter photography, media technology....were encouraged to learn, look for, required to know....all about vintage items. They and I have found and donated items to their professors. Some they kept for themselves. Most not totally rare or expensive. But it helps to see the real items. Like ones old camera I found in pristine condition was just a light box. Basically cardboard and a covered lens cap. You had to guess exposure! Kind of Flintstone process. But teacher loved her brining it to share with class. From the 1920s. Also found and still to give to my son the hand crank film camera. No motor, no batteries, charging!
My sister had one of those bar tender toys. She got it from our grandpa. It worked and was great fun. It’s amazing as we live in the U.K.
I bought several boxes of plastic models that were packed in the 60s and individually wrapped in newspapers. I appreciated reading the crusty old papers as much as the models themselves.
Love your show and glad you got the store open and be safe enjoy the weather up there I wish I was up there ps God Bless
Yay! I have missed these unboxings. Life may just go back to normal at some point. This felt hopeful. Thanks Alex, stay safe.
*Wow what alot of cool stuff, my favourite was the ship it was so cool my dad would of loved that, and i also loved the mini sewing machine, Alex you have the coolest job and shop♥️👍🏼*
So fun to watch, right up to the last pun! Simply "grate"! 😉
I always wondered why beer steins had lids! Thanks for that tidbit of information. 👍
4:25 heyyy, Bausch & Lomb! Hails from right here in Rochester, NY. I've seen their family plot in our Mt. Hope Cemetery, keeping Susan B. Anthony & Frederick Douglass company lol
I was just thinking the same thing! Wonder if the projector is Kodak. Wouldn’t that be cool ?
@@bunnymomma12 You're right, it could be! a lot of Kodak stuff was before my time (I'm a 90s baby), so I don't have enough knowledge to be able to tell. I can ALWAYS single out a Brownie camera though! 😁😁😁
StarlightDemon71 me too! They are pretty cool I think!!
The two little sewing machines looked neat. A little of this and a bit of that assortment.👍
I had a small sewing machine like the first one. I also had a portable Singer with all the old accessories. The leather ring on the rewind bobbin wheel was replaced with a same sized automotive ring. Worked wonders.
I absolutely love the 2nd little sewing machine.
I loved EVERYTHING in this haul!!! It paid off big time buying the lot sight unseen. Those early Mountain Dew bottles used a variety of hillbilly names in addition to Clem and Gert. We always giggled that the guy in the background is running toward an outhouse.
So many cool, interesting items...I still have my little sewing machine from when I was a kid 😁
What a darling little sewing machine! If postage to here wasn't such a killer lol I'd very much consider it. Great exploring/rummaging ... thanks for sharing.
Haha Your up to 311k and I didnt notice. Congrats Alex
That was fun ! Pretty good stuff, huh. 😁👍🌞
The seltzer bottle and kid's sewing machine are great.
I love all your knowledge! ❤️
I love that bar quartet set. So adorable and unique. I wish I had one.
I love the mixture of stuff! That's kind of how I collect. If it's old and I like it, I'll probably buy one haha
I would love to visit your store when the COVID pandemic has cleared. Lots to see.
I absolutely love the second sewing machine!!!!
Me too!
The little showcase would be great for fountain pens.
Good finds! The guy had some really nice things.
Loved the old book😍 I love very old books great find ...you always find something amazing just a shame I live in the UK or maybe a good job I live so far away as I dont have the any spare budget and I'd be more disappointed not been able to buy anything . Thank you for sharing , keep up the great work
Robin hood Flour was founded in Moose Jaw, in 1909. It was a mainstay in Moose Jaw. The mill had a towering stack and on the front was a very large image of Robin Hood. As kids we always enjoyed seeing it. Alas the plant was sold to a different company and our beloved image of Robin Hood is no more.
What a cool haul! Do many interesting things. It did feel like unwrapping Christmas gifts.
I hope you get the old projector running. It’s fun watching those old reels.
This is always so fun! I'm amazed how much you know about each item. I wouldn't even know what 1/2 of those items are.
He's like an encyclopedia. I can't believe how much knowledge he has, on such a wide variety of topics.
Wow! Lots of cool stuff in those boxes l would have to say!! Very nice! Take care everybody! Thanks Alex!! Peace to all ....💜⚘💜
The thing is, anyone that follows you knows you have integrity.
If you were to find a treasure, you would take care of the seller.
So no risk at all to him.
Love Your penny countertop, can’t wait to come back to Alberta to check Your shop out. Awesome videos thanks
The "Microscope" at 4:20 appears to be a Bausch & Lomb Duboscq Colorimeter. The device was named after Jules Duboscq who invented it. It measures the concentration of a colored component in a solution. You put a sample of known concentration in one tube and the unknown sample in the other. You adjust the lengths of the tubes until the colors match, then the products of the concentration and length for each should be equal. Since you know the concentration of one, you can calculate the concentration of the other. A very useful device.
I love to see all of your amazing finds. Can’t wait until you figure out a way to go through your treasures with more than one hand though. You will be able to explore with the reverence the pieces deserve instead of so haphazardly.
enjoy looking thru boxes for
surprises with you.
I'm watching you unpack stuff .I'm mark or snoopy from Christchurch new Zealand. Stay safe my friend.
I've got a very similar book like the one you found: It is called "Das fleissige Hausmütterchen", printed in 1928, about 800 pages thick. Found in a "free stuff" box on the sidewalk. This book from Switzerland has about everything you would need back then to successfully manage a household and is not only a treasure trove full of old publicity from local companies which have long vanished, but it holds a vast amout of knowledge: Gardening, medicine, sewing entire clothes from scratch, education of the children, choosing a good home, housekeeping, entire menu selections based on season (even vegetarian one's) and the recipes, cooking methods, keeping livestock and butchering, presenting electric kitchen appliances as the latest technology, and more. The knowledge of making your own stuff is getting lost to time, but this book has it all.
The funny part: You can buy the book I mentioned for only 20 $ from online sellers. They aren't valuable becaue only few realise what knowledge is stored in those books.
I swear...some of the things you find in ""FREE "" boxes or just tossed in the trash are just unbelievable!!
You opened the typewriter the correct way at first; someone had it upside-down in the case. Olympias are classics in their own right and very collectable to some people depending on the model. I still have the one that got me through college.
It should be latched to the bottom of the case. Normally you wouldn't remove it to use it; you'd just take the lid off.
I thought so!!
I have the exact same one! I got it while I was in high school in the 1970s.
Tom Hanks is a collector of type writers
@@tcalto2319 I received an identical one for graduation in 1961.
Great variety of goodies Loved the deposited droppings accompanied by harp music! Ive got a 60's bell & howell? projector I found in an old storage room when I worked at our city's stadium. It had long fallen off the obsolete inventory list. Figured it was a reasonable bonus for shredding decades old payroll records full of mouse poop. Powers up, but needs some sort of repair. Found a user manual for it online too. One of many things on my list to be listed eventually.
Have an apple corer just like that. Been in the family since it was brand new. Works perfectly good as the day it was bought. I've added a small 3D printed blade holder to hold modern box blades which are sharper and hold an edge better than the original one, but other than that, no issues with it. Can't beat good old engineering.
The boat is really neat. You sure get a variety of items,always like to see what you get.
You carry everything that america's Walmart store chain does under one small roof. Simply amazing to me how that you do it or take two hundred items to the auction house and not make hardly any new room. I think that you found the mysterious "sky hook" and have it quietly working for you. Tremendous haul. I do see the possibility of a other start up business that you could run with that is either cars or music pending which that you hold most dear
That ship is super cool 😊 I see the Buick in the background you got it 😃
Some cool finds, the second little sewing machine was grate👍👍😉
That seltzer bottle is a thing of beauty .
I fell in love with the tiny sewing machines! I’ll bet you won’t have them for long. 😉
Really interesting, enjoyed it all whilst having lunch! XXX
Hey! You just skimmed over the Singer attachments, then you tease me by opening the bag again then just dropping it...😉😆
Enjoyed. Great finds.
Love all your vids. Thanks for sharing.
The lid on the beer mug was primarily against the dust from the unpaved roads caused by horses, buggies and carts passing by. The tea tin is maybe useful for Melissa to keep her coffee in.
So glad your opened
This episode is an instant classic.
Love the little print machine.
The two child vintage sewing machines........................oh how I'd love those. They are so nice. Let me know how much they sold for. The shipping itself would be too much for me, but they are apprecaited.
Ship is amazing. Love it.
I remember getting Mountain Dew in that kind of bottles.
I’m still drooling over your 56 Buick. It has 3 ports, so it’s a Special. Century and Roadmaster had 4.
The bullet holes in the flour sign are a nice touch.
The last "grate" joke, made me laugh unexpectedly and it sounded like a sheep bleat.. lol. All in all, a grate haul!
Topless beer stein got me. ah, Dad jokes and thier proprietor.
Good buys 👍😄❤️
That seltzer bottle is SO COOL!!!
Thanks Alex, fun and interesting video!
Great fun pieces!
Pretty cool to see the Pinkerton Tobacco Co. catalog ~ I live not far from Toledo, OH! :)
You do need a Receiving Room for the incoming things to sit in and get sorted.
Oh I need to buy one of those “oh no Mr. Bill”. Gotta have one for my Dad... Bill