Old Strathcona Antique Mall

There’s a t-shirt for sale at the Old Strathcona Antique Mall that neatly sums up the whole antique mall experience. “This ain’t your grandma’s antique store,” the shirt proclaims.

No kidding.

The definition of antique is a flexible thing. To a purist, an antique should be at least a century old. To others, 50 years is a good benchmark. And to those who don’t remember a time without personal computers, anything from the Atari era is, like, an antique, dude.

However you define it, you’ll find something to pique your interest at the Old Strathcona Antique Mall. It is chock full of antiques, curios, tchotchkes, retro, vintage, oddities and just plain cool stuff.

Betty Reitan and her daughter, Bobbi Weibel, have owned the mall on Gateway Boulevard since 2009. Betty is a former gourmet coffee shop owner and was part of the executive team at Intuit, while Bobbi has a business degree. Both, of course, are avid antique collectors.