| North St. Paul / Cards of every kind
Fantasies. Diseases. Wars. Holidays. They're memorialized on postcards, and Jerry Peterson's passion is selling these garage-sale pieces of history. BY MATT PEIKEN Pioneer Press If you were to rummage through your basement, clean, organize and price everything and cast the room with the bright white of fluorescent light, you might wind up with a replica of Jerry Peterson's store. The eye candy at the Seventh Avenue Antique Mall in North St. Paul begins in the front display window, where a fuzzy gorilla reclines on a brocade chaise lounge, and extends inside to shelves of boxed-up Barbies, faded board games connected to "The Brady Bunch" and "All in the Family" and framed images of Jesus bearing prominent labels in felt pen identifying each as a "religious picture." It's easy to overlook the dozens of blue binders and long white cardboard boxes that house the store's most distinctive contents.
Store's 'junque' not too shabby
PORT RICHEY - Down in a low-lying strip mall, near a vacant, run-down building and Fred's discount store, women gasp. A pink rocking chair! Antique egg holders! Chenille bedspread! Vintage nursery lamps! Surprise. Tucked away off busy, not-so-attractive Ridge Road is Junk to Junque, a "shabbily chic shoppe" run by longtime friends Ginnie Logan and Donna Bollman. Located in a former medical office, Junk to Junque is part artsy boutique, part antique shop and is set up as a series of decorated rooms that feel almost like the inside of an English cottage. The women study home decor magazines to come up with touches like hanging silver forks on the walls to hold photographs. Their inventory - from decorated bird cages to 1950s kitchen canisters to a pink transistor radio - is aimed at women who like the "shabby chic" look.
Antique coins found in Hue rivers
VietNamNet Bridge – For the past several years, beside ceramic works, fishermen have found a large number of antique coins in rivers in Hue and sold them to antique money collectors.
Most of the coins are made of copper and zinc. There are sometimes gold and silver coins that were minted for award purposes rather than to be used on the market. .
Super new rules, pure and simple
With the Labor Party stating that it would now support the legislation, the new system will start on July 1, with very few, if any, changes. Many people still have questions on how the new system will affect them. Q. I have a collection of about 60 insurance and other types of signs and certificates. They have a value of about $150 each. I also have some other small antique items around the house. Looking on eBay, these signs have increased in value of late, and I think of them as investments. Could I sell these to my self-managed super fund, which has two members, my wife and myself? A. Under the rules regulating self-managed super funds, there is a ban on them buying assets from members. The only exceptions to this rule are listed securities, such as shares at market value, business real property, widely held unit trusts and the in-house assets where their value is no more than 5 per cent of the total value of the funds' assets.
Developers transform area around roundabout
Across Eighth Street, exterior work is just under way on a $3 million renovation of the former C. Reiss Coal Co. headquarters building, which will house a 2,200-square-foot retail space on the ground floor and 18 condo units above, said project manager Jennifer Johnson of Dixon Development. The condos will sell for $135,000 to $314,000, Johnson said, adding that 12 of the condos are reserved, though none have been officially sold. Reach Eric Litke at 453-5119 and elitke@sheboygan-press.com.
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