Sunday, September 2, 2012

Obscura Antiques & Oddities - a bizzarre store review



So also this Labor Day weekend while in NYC I went to a few other places I’ve been meaning to visit. 
One of them being Obscura Antiques & Oddities 

http://www.obscuraantiques.com   of the “reality” t.v. show Oddities from the Sci-Fi channel.

Now few things in the actual store resembled the t.v. show.   

Yes, it was in NYC and yes both places sell bizarre shit, like antique "rectal dialators and antique helmet for being shot out of a cannon.  But other than that it doesn't bear much resemblance to everything else in the show, none of the staff, etc.  From what I understand the original location was on the Tenth Street and if you’ve ever watched the show it’s a long narrow venue whereas the store where we were in today was one square room.



The staff was pretty accommodating and even helped us out by snapping our picture, though we must have appeared to be a couple of dorky tourists (guilty).  They did give us a free postcard (see pic in upper left hand corner).

It’s a cute place to visit in the city (that’s free) just to check out something abit more bizarre than normal.

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