The first pieces.

The first night in our journey was spent at a Sam’s Club in New York (after which we saw that sign that said “No Overnight Parking”!), but the second night was spent in the perfectly level parking lot of one of our favorite antique malls in Pennsylvania.

The Fayetteville Antique Mall is a group of three buildings located at 3653 Lincoln Way E, in Fayetteville, Pennsylvania. It was once four buildings, with that fourth building across the street, but that closed a few years back, which is okay with me because I hated taking my life in my hands to run across that busy highway to buy stuff and then running back with all sorts of precious glassware.

So, just the three buildings and that was enough for us. We always start with the back building (pictured above) and there we found the first pieces on our journey.

It was a promising start finding these shelves of Pyrex and Corning Ware. At this point, at our very first stop, we didn’t know how the shopping was going to go. The Corning Ware I found was good, but standard pieces that I can find in Maine, and also for less. But the Pyrex!

There were a lot of pieces, some on sale, some at just a good buy. The photo above isn’t THAT exciting, but those #501s and #502s are the first of the HUNDREDS we’ve bought so far. And we knew that just a piece here and a piece there will result in a full set by the time we return to Maine. In fact, that Spring Blossom Green refrigerator set is already complete! And I think we’ve completed two Primary Colors refrigerator sets!

But we did find some Corning Ware:

A 1-quart Spice o’ Life IN BOX and the Christmas 1998 1.5-Liter casserole, and at nice prices! The 25th Anniversary of the Corning Glass Works in Greencastle Corelle plate was a nice, find, too!

The coolest thing we found was the Hazel Atlas Capri Colonial Chip ‘n Dip set from the 1960s. This is an example of something that I pretend to buy for the shop, but secretly plan to keep it and use it for myself.

The last thing we found was a Commodore 64 Computer.

We didn’t buy it, of course, but it brought back fun memories of 1984 when we had our Vic-20 and then later the newer version of the Commodore 64. And saving our work on a cassette tape with the Commodore Dataset and waiting and waiting and waiting…

Next stop, Riverside Antique Mall in Weldon, North Carolina!

Check out the CoxRetros Etsy shop here, though it’s still on vacation. You can read the reviews, though!