B4

It is almost like a museum. Eclectic and unique mementos to a past golden age. All of the stuff that was cool before it was cool to be cool. Vinyl records (lots of them!), old cameras, corded phones, glasses, posters, just deep deep nostalgia sort of stuff. Very interesting and very cool.
They are directly across the street from Pecan Lodge.

Great place for hard to find collectibles. Found a cool Flametrick Subs poster that the owner gave me. Tons of great stuff like records, posters, art, etc.

This store is amazing, I could spend hours going through inventory and never see everything. The owner is knowledgeable about seemingly everything and happy to chat with you. Highly recommend this to anyone who lives or is just visiting in Dallas.

Great place to visit! Full of fun stuffs!
They also have one of the best Record collections in Dallas area, if you’re fan of records.

This shop has a foul old odor, not like antique old but more like something died in the wall or it hasn’t been cleaned in a few years. A very weird vibe from the guy who runs it. When I was in just wasting time looking around I felt like I was being watched in a creepy way. Then the smell got to me and just had to leave. Yuk! All I saw was high prices for old junk anyway.

Amazing selection of records! Really cool vintage shop with lots of stuff to look and and pick through. The owner was super helpful and we talked music for 30 mins. and gave me 2 local records for free. This is one of the best kept secrets of Deep Ellum. Every Time I’m downtown I like to pop in.

Fun little nostalgia shop to walk through while you’re in Deep Ellum! You never know what you’ll find, and I always enjoy checking out the vintage toys as you walk in. Lots of vinyl to look through!

Amazing vintage shop! I’ll definitely make sure I come through here every time I’m in Dallas!

Nice whole in the wall antique shop. Lots of Vinyl here, which is great. Problem is its ALL over priced, and not in the condition it’s priced at. Sad.

I excitedly visited this store for my 2^nd time one night and brought my fiancé’ with me. We had just left the Deep Ellum Outdoor Market which had closed for the day and wanted to shop some more. We bought some Legos for our son for Christmas from the owner of B4 and had some nice conversations with him about the place. All seemed good. When we left the store a lady from the Outdoor Market was calling me to meet up to give us our handmade gifts she was working on past the hours of the market which was incredibly nice of her! We told her we were just leaving B4 so she came and met us outside. She gave us our gifts (custom leather luggage tags) and we did a quick paypal swipe on her phone when the owner of B4 walked out of his store and over to us making remarks about how he pays rent there and not to do business near his store. I said, I’m sorry. No problem. Even though his attitude was extremely rude, we immediately walked further down the sidewalk as he held up a megaphone yelling at us making sarcastic comments. It was nuts! I said bye to the lady, thanked her, and apologized for the jerk owner being so dang rude. He didn’t stop though. As I walked past the store in the other direction now to stand with my fiancé’ on his call. I turned back around and saw the guy come back outside and started calling the lady names through his megaphone as she was down the street leaving already. We were all shocked. I’ve worked in different levels of hospitality and have my own business now and NEVER do you treat any customer like that! I would expect much more from even McDonald’s drive thru workers! You really shouldn’t treat ANYONE like that. Unless of course you want to be avoided by anyone with decency or who cares how they’re treated. He didn’t seem to care that other customers were around and potential patrons walking by either as he continued yelling ridiculous things.
I was still nearby waiting with my fiancé to finish his business call and was so troubled by what had just happened that after she was gone I walked over to the B4 owner (hoping me giving him a chance to apologize would make things right and I could let this all go and forgive him) who kept stepping outside and yelling across the street at the restaurant about how loud their band was through his megaphone (Pecan Lodge I think it was). As if THAT was actually the thing keeping people from coming into his store. Trying to assume the best and think maybe this guy just really mis-​perceived us, I kindly told the owner our scenario and that she was just coming to meet us because it’s where we happened to be leaving when she finished our gifts and that she wasn’t just passing by and selling stuff to us like it may have appeared to him in a whim. That we weren’t trying to cause any problems and sorry for anything that seemed inconsiderate to this store. As he replied with his same angst and frustration I again said I understand and no problem, referring to us moving further from the storefront. Although that was me trying to amend the situation hoping he’d come back down to earth with some courtesy. Nope. He then pulled his megaphone up to his face and yelled at me as I left about how I was slaughtering deer for some cheap tags and bashed me continuously til I was gone. Apparently he had a big problem with leather. He was insulting us. It was disgusting. Ya know, if you have a personal view about something like that and you wish others did to, can we all agree that is the quickest way to be hated and not listened to?! There was also a leather purse for sale in his store which he justified when i mentioned. He told me that he would have rather lost our sale of the Legos. I was tempted to return them, but wasn’t going to let him talk to me like that anymore so I got my fiancé’ off his call and left as I told him what all had just happened since he was further down the sidewalk away from the storefront not aware.
This experience was so alarming and troubling to me that I waited a few months to write this review. I am the last person to want to hate on anyone or wish them negatively but my conscious has stayed with me about this and I feel that the right thing to do is tell what honestly happened. That is their consequence to deal with now. Unfortunately stuff like this are bad for the surrounding businesses too so I hope this guy changes and makes things right. There’s a lot of good people and businesses in Deep Ellum and they deserve a better neighbor for the sake of their businesses and all us patrons.

Some of the people who leave reviews for this place need to chill out and Google the word «vintage». After that, they need to familiarize themselves with what incense smell like. Having said that, you walk in here and the place smells like burning incense. If you don’t like it, then you are free to leave. This place is a cool vintage/​vinyl/​toy kind of place located in Deep Ellum. If you are walking around Deep Ellum and don’t understand what kind of area this is, then you have a lot of other problems. If you grew up in the 70’s or 80’s, then you will love it here. You will inevitably see something from your childhood and fond memories will come flooding back (see my pictures). This is an eclectic, hipster, uptown kind of place. People were playing chess by the door when we walked in and then a cat wandered through the front door that everyone seemed to know, so its pretty neat in here. The people working here are also pretty cool, so do yourself a favor and check this place out.

RAD place! This shop fits the true Deep Ellum vibe and spirit. The owner is a really nice dude and cranks out killer jams. He had The Cramps on when my husband and I were in there. He has unique items and you will spend hours in there.

Outside the very artsy second hand toy/​record and miscellaneous store of B4, rummaging through a bin of used records on a bricked sidewalk made it easy to imagine being in downtown manhattan.
A Chinese parade dragon head sat in the store window keying the barrel of treats and
characters we’d meet inside this sort of punk rock kid playground.
Like the extreme hit you might get of cold AC, we were hit upon entering with an unpleasant powerful smell perhaps closest in description to the bowels of pre WWII toilet plumbing, masked with a cheap bleach and then with toxic pheromones of a thriving virus colony. A more dramatic description might be to compare the overwhelming odor inside B4 to what you’d expect to find in Jeffrey Dahmers apartment.
As I involuntarily moved my hand to my face, my boyfriend also grimaced to himself.
«Should we stay?» I really wanted to walk out. «I don’t know.» He hesitated.
The bounty of old toys, with an emphasis on 70’s and 80’s, with a mix of other decade
décor hits, was ripe for exploration, so we agreed on a quick run through.
A Yoda clock, a fisher price barn, and a plethora of other knick knacks begged for attention but we ran out of scary toyland as fast as we could without throwing up.

Definitely a neat little shop in Deep Ellum with a lot of stuff from the 80’s.
I saw a bunch of toys I haven’t seen in a long time, and they get new stuff weekly so I’ll definitely be back to see what else they get in the future.

I’m sorry… I’m only 36, so if most of the stuff is from my childhood you can’t really call it vintage. Certainly a treasure trove of 80’s stuff. Vinyl is WAY overpriced though.

Really cool store and the owner is a down to earth kind of guy. Definitely will return soon.

Great store! Lots of cool collectible stuff and great LP selection. Met the owner, really nice guy.

I was looking for the perfect Valentine’s Day present for my bf who loves collectible vintage items, and I was able to find a vintage Viewmaster which he ended up loving. There were several to choose from. I also enjoyed perusing through the aisle of collectible action figurines, record players, clothes, china, furniture. What a fun place to visit. You could spend hours in here learning about the history of the items; the owner is very knowledgeable and helpful. Be sure to check B4 out if you’re in need of a unique gift or just want to kill some time.

The old Millenium store, now B4, provides a fun place to stop in and look around while wandering through Deep Ellum. The space itself is small but well laid out, with lots of older toys, records, and glassware. They do also have some chairs and furniture, but most of their wares are smaller items, so you can stop in with nothing in particular in mind and leave with a trinket or two for under $ 10.