We Almost Drove Past This Incredible Find

SPIRO
A garage sale ad promises antiques, but the unexpected stops along the way turn out to be the real treasure hunt.

We're up early and hunting for cool antiques and vintage items in rural Oklahoma, far from home and far from the big antique malls. A few garage-sale near misses lead us to an impromptu flea market where sellers offer items from the backs of their pickups. Between the junk jewelry and a tractor lamp, we uncover bargain-priced Hull pottery, Fostoria, Fenton, and Bohemian glass, consider a silver pocket watch, and rescue a filthy but worthwhile cream and sugar set fresh from a storage unit.

The adventure continues in Spiro, Oklahoma, where thrift, junk, and antique stores deliver one surprise after another. We pass on an oil lamp collection and wish we had room for a cool MCM industrial cart, but that space proves valuable when we discover a lumberyard-antique shop packed with unexpected treasures. Bottles full of marbles, stylish 1960s jukeboxes, old advertising signs, jewelry, and even a complete barbershop interior compete for attention. Along the way, we uncover a 1970s valise, a 1920s wooden wall phone, a beautiful Victorian cameo, and several other antiques and vintage finds that come together in a great deal.

Before we finally reach the garage sale that inspires the trip, another unexpected stop changes the day once again. A pop-up thrift store yields a button that takes us back 40 years and reminds us why these spontaneous road trips are so much fun. By the end of the day, a random journey down an old Oklahoma highway delivers great finds, good prices, and a vintage-shopping destination we'll be eager to visit again.

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