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Pilsen Antique Shop Takes Customers Back in Time
Clip: 10/3/2024 | 3m 32sVideo has Closed Captions
How a passion for collecting led to a business venture.
El Anticuario owner Francisco Orozco says his passion for collecting began when he was a kid in Mexico.
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Pilsen Antique Shop Takes Customers Back in Time
Clip: 10/3/2024 | 3m 32sVideo has Closed Captions
El Anticuario owner Francisco Orozco says his passion for collecting began when he was a kid in Mexico.
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We visit antique shop in Pilsen taking customers back in time.
>> If you're walking down 18th street, it's hard to pass this storefront without wondering what's as soon as you step in.
You realize it's just about People found it to like magical.
And as soon people they choose getting.
>> The I mean that, you know, this and just our home, mailing you know, the Bay coaching me, I doubt I'm saying goal of on this call.
>> school little school is the owner of it on the quality retro weird stuff.
Cool junk.
He says his passion for collecting began when he was just a kid in Mexico.
>> I like to and I found a little piece of metal the water and see they It was very interesting piece and scenes that I mean time.
>> Quirky vintage items, gadgets and a collection of Latin American book statues and artifacts are found throughout the shop.
>> This is the best part of the story because we tried to find their rears books and coach Goggle.
>> And if you hang around long enough, they'll start to feel like you've entered a whole other world.
This is very personal thing culture, the bat and the good.
>> And you can see in the back there in originals.
said like a guy from a person got make a miracle.
first to the north and this is in a very it can Duchenne.
>> school opened the shop 6 years ago, runs it with his wife, Alex and his daughter.
Gabby.
>> use to cut because it very much is hoarding.
>> Our house or the House only growing up and we would go to school and just what he does here he would do at home.
So it all the furniture rearranged give.
He says the more unusual, the discovery, the better it is.
>> This summer, I hear it's a doctor trying to keep death away from taking the woman.
So of asked about this on and so many who have offered or like know this.
It's just a rare find.
>> What school says?
The shop is a representation of his roots.
He wanted to be a space to celebrate his culture.
>> In love for all things strange.
>> I was saying to the people this is not a place is more like a concept.
>> Everything in the store is intentionally curated.
Nothing here is new.
I mean, everything is and we're trying like you said everything that you have here has a story.
>> And I believe every item.
>> To it's like calling for as what I'm being So every item.
>> It's unknown give credits her parents for the success of the antique shop in the community.
It's not just another store to them.
It's >> like them opening their home.
And yeah, I mean, they can come here have an experience.
>> And it's hard to leave without wanting to buy something.
The family recently opened a second location across the street.
There you can find furniture, a larger
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