Age 16

I was thinking about where my love of vintage stores first began, and remembered Grandfather’s Collections on Bussorah Street. Did some photo-digging and uncovered these images from 2005, taken on my very first trip to a shophouse filled with oddities, costume jewelry, juxeboxes and a vespa! I’m not sure if this shop is still there, but the vespa had been sold by the time I made my second visit just a few months after.

I wish I had more images, but it was a bit of a hit or miss with my digital camera from 2005 and my shaky amateur hands. This might also be the only presentable act-cool photo of sixteen year old me in existence…in an excited blur, hair covering half of face. You have been warned.