![]() ![]() ![]() The Reeses, young Gazette subscribers, are edging toward tightwaddery. We head for the Roosevelt Hotel in Hollywood to join Symmon and Susan Reese, who’ve come up from Irvine to meet the grande dame of thrift. For TV guest shots, she’s brought her Gloria Vanderbilt suit ($1.50 at a church thrift shop). “I give my kids secondhand toys for Christmas.” One caveat: “You will never find a complete erector set at a yard sale.”ĭacyczyn is wearing jeans (firsthand) and a paisley vest (secondhand). “People get rid of their clothes when they gain weight. In clothes, small sizes are easiest to find. LP records are “a really good deal, if you can sort of delay your entry into the CD world for a few years.” ![]() Not worth $5, she decides, but she’d trash-pick it from a curb in a flash, if only for firewood.Īs we move along, she offers a few bargain-hunting strategies: She inspects an ornate jardiniere stand that’s minus one leg. A pair of Empire chairs are handsome, but at $200, Dacyczyn says, a bargain only for a do-it-yourself caner. We move on to Beverly Hills, to an eclectic mix of antiques and junque behind iron gates. “You have to be quick and move on,” she says. “Hit this thing with a little black marker and a little spit and you have a nice piece of folk art.” A dime she’ll take it. From a jumble of toys Dacyczyn plucks a small, slightly chipped, carved and painted cat. ![]()
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