Al’s Collectables & Antiques

Nestled away upstairs in the Broadway Broker is this hidden gem. As soon as you start walking up the stairway to Al’s, various trinkets line the walls, stairs, and banister leading to the largest collection of all kinds of things and then some! Not a place to come if you have a headache, but if you feel like browsing around, even for a little while. If you have any interest in cool old finds, this is your best bet. But be forewarned-​there is stuff everywhere you look-​hanging from the rafters, all over the counters, inside old display racks, and on and on…
Found some cool old toys that had me strolling down memory lane.
Al is really personable and happy to have you around and to tell you how his mother got him started by collecting things, and this is what he has done ever since.
I found some cool vintage sunglasses just like a pair I used to have from an old Aunt, which had another sun shade attached with a little hinge to make the top shady too! He was selling them for $ 150.00!
I bought some amazingly cool and old postcards from the Baltimore and DC areas. Some were written on from over one hundred years ago. Some of the messages and cards were really hysterical and it was cool to see that people had such sarcastic humor back then.
One I didn’t purchase, but I shared a laugh with Al about pictured a cannon in the foreground with a cemetary in the background. On the back of the postcard, someone wrote «come visit us anytime, our house is open to you!»