Peter’s Oldies But Goodies Furniture

This place is odd. Maybe I say that because I stumbled on it by walking through a back hallway from another shop.
I love odd.
There is an old man, tending the place, working in the back polishing, fixing, shining things. There is a cat. Her name is Princess, she is 14 years old. I pray she never dies.
The place is cluttered and if that bothers you, this place is NOT for you. I love cluttered. And wood furniture pieces, and good prices.
This is the kind of place you stop back at once a month, if only to see Princess and look around a bit.

Quite the place brimming with odds and ends. Peter’s Oldies but Goodies has much more than just furniture. There were antique stamps, a doctor’s kit, and a collection of books which contains an alarming «Minneapolis Negro Profile.» (Not making that one up). Peter –if his name is that– was funny and obviously used to browsers boiling over from the wait at BDP. Given more time, I probably would have found a treasure.
Toward the back there is a sign that says ‘More.’ Through this door is a room filled with unpainted, clay garden sculptures. The man back there makes them all and they are amazing and inexpensive. He was so nice, very Minnesotan. Not sure if this is a separate store than Peter’s…
The cat is so precious. Her name is Princess and she is cute as a button. Apparently she is 12 years old! She purred the whole time I petted her and then followed me around the store. Love it!

maybe it is just me, but the best part of this crowded over stacked heap of oldies is the lazy cat that is sometimes awake when we visit.
I search for him like he is a rock bottom priced piece of collectible pottery from a rarely known artist in 1940.
I found him in a stack of chairs, asleep.
Wake up lazy bones, I said, and in response he squeaked a meek little leave me alone meow, sniffed my finger and went back to sleep.
There is a ton of merchandise here, and most of it seems like it would take too much work and time to make fit in my space. Still, fun to poke around.
if you wander far enough you will find what appears to be two other stores with distinct ways of displaying their product, one mostly glass, the other more sparse and cleaner, but all connected in that strange Minnesota «skyway» mentality.