1019 First Street · Snohomish
Furniture, porcelain signs, neon, pedal cars, and advertising going back a hundred years — spread over two levels on First Street. Open Wednesday through Sunday.
Categories rather than a catalogue — every piece is one of one, and the floor changes weekly.
The walls, the stairwell, and the locked cases.
Soda, gasoline, tobacco, farm equipment, highway
Bar and storefront neon, lit on the floor
Boxed figures, die-cast, and cased collectables
Main floor
Dressers, hutches, secretaries, and kitchen cupboards
Chrome and formica sets, usually with the chairs
Work benches, crates, ladders, and painted cupboards
Shelves and cases throughout.
Coloured glass, jars, enamelware, and kitchen tins
Bakelite sets, folding cameras, and crates of vinyl
Petroliana, pumps, cans, licence plates, and hubcaps
The basement, where the digging is.
Hand tools, bins of iron, and shop equipment
Doors, hardware, lighting, and window sash
Postcards, catalogues, maps, magazines, and signage stock
What the visit is actually like
The building from the kerb, and three of its corners.
Snohomish calls itself the Antique Capital of the Northwest, and the 900 to 1100 blocks of First Street are the heart of it — a stretch of brick and timber storefronts built mostly between 1880 and 1930, on a street that was paved with brick in 1903.
Antique Warehouse sits in the middle of that block, behind a long burgundy awning. Inside it is what the name says: open timber posts, rafters, industrial shelving, and stock stacked to the height of a person and past it. Porcelain gas signs and neon on the walls, oak casegoods and dinette sets down the aisles, pedal cars and wagon parts overhead.
The booths and cases belong to separate dealers, each with their own numbered tags and their own eye, which is why one aisle runs to porcelain signs and pedal cars and the next to Depression glass and boxed toys.
Nothing here is arranged to be a lifestyle set. It is arranged so that the greatest number of things fit, which is why people who come for twenty minutes tend to be here for two hours, and why the good finds are usually the ones nobody had pulled to the front yet.
Longer than you think. There are two levels. An hour is a quick look; regulars take two.
The main floor is at street level and step-free. The basement is reached by stairs only — there is no lift — and the basement has low ceilings and single-step changes in level. Call ahead and we will tell you what is currently on the main floor.
Yes. Cards and cash are both fine.
Call the shop and ask. Give us the piece and a day you can collect and we will do what we can.
A one-off closure can happen — call ahead if you are driving in.
Looking for something specific, or wondering whether it is worth the drive? Ask before you set off.
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