CTConnecticut field entry
Roosevelt Tower Antiques, Salvage & Thrift
Derby, CT
A Derby factory thrift shop where taxidermy, motorcycles, records, antique radios, vending machines, old toys, military pieces, phones, movie memorabilia, salvage, coins, and giant objects disappear into a massive warehouse operation.
Roosevelt Tower stretches thrift shopping across an old factory property, mixing antiques and salvage with records, machines, motorcycles, taxidermy, toys, militaria, electronics, signage, collectibles, and oversized objects backed by a huge warehouse.
Field notes
Why it belongs
Thrift store, antique shop, salvage operation, record store, vintage-machine dealer, motorcycle collector, taxidermy stop, toy seller, militaria dealer, electronics shop, and warehouse treasure hunt.
The categories are too broad and the industrial setting too strange for the business to read like an ordinary antique store or thrift shop.
Roosevelt Tower Antiques, Salvage & Thrift grew from a small thrift operation into a Derby business housed on a rehabilitated late-1800s factory property. Its public shop covers roughly 9,000 square feet, backed by a much larger warehouse operation, and the inventory can range from records, old radios, toys, movie memorabilia, taxidermy and military pieces to motorcycles, vending machines, antique telephones, coins, signage, salvage and unusually large objects. The constant turnover and industrial setting turn a thrift stop into a sprawling hunt through unrelated eras and categories.
Store contents
What you will find
Directory categories
Known for
- Antiques
- Salvage
- Thrift finds
- Taxidermy
- Records
- Vintage radios
- Motorcycles
- Vending and pinball machines
- Old toys
- Military collectibles
- Movie memorabilia
- Oversized unusual objects
- Factory and warehouse setting