What is going on members of the Barrio
It's Jon coming to you from the East Village of New York City
And today i'm going to be showing you guys around a store
That you're probably not going to find in many guide books
It's called Obscura Antiques and Oddities
This place is weird, this place is different
And I think you're going to like it a lot
Alright guys I've had a chance to walk around the store and this place is so unique
You're going to find out why
I've got one of the owners Evan sitting here
And she's going to be kind enough to show us around the store
Evan tell us a bit about this store for somebody who's never been here before
We specialize in the rare or things that are often overlooked.
Or things that are somehow difficult to understand
And probably pretty archaic
Alright great let's go for a tour
This is our miscellenaous area
Our entire shop is really a miscellaneous area
Umm so we often have some antique deer hooves
We have glass globes
We have natural history diaromas.
We always have some kind of mask
These are actually german painted masks
The details really beautiful on them
Can I try it on?
Yeah it kind of looks like you
Guys is he better looking or worse looking tell me in the comments.
Okay
It did kind of look like me a little bit
Yeah
We specialize in carved puppets
This one is an old wood specimen
It's terribly handsome I think
How much does this guy retail for?
This guys about 500 dollars
A very old one, original paint
Very nicely done
This is Goliath the dead
As you can see he has quite a pallete
Does it actually work
Should I move it?
Uhh if you can move it
They don't actually work in the sense that the spirits are probably not reaching out from the other side
And guiding your hand
You can believe that if you want
You always have the one friend who's doing it
Yeah... well they're kind of wasting their time
But if it makes you happy
And floats your boat and helps you sleep at night
Then that's whats happening
All the answers are
here
I actually found something that I'm going to be buying today
And these are Mexican comics
As postcards
I'm going to buy this just for Adriana
So this is our big case
In the back of the shop
It's my favorite place
This is where we keep some of the more unusual things
And the more fragile things
The older things
And the lock is very hard to get off
Don't get any ideas
I'll try not to
Yeah so we have things like the medical models
This is a wax tongue
We have some of my favorite stuff. This is all hair jewelery
This is a watch chain
Made out of human hair
We have this is a world war 1
Prosthetic arm
Featuring a hook oh wow.
It's really beautifully made
This one is German
And the person I acquired it from
Got it from the gentleman's family
And they said that his injury
Came on armistice day
So maybe one of the last people to have lost limbs during world war 1
Can I hold that?
Yeah please do
A prosthetic arm from World War 1
This is incredible
This whole store is just living history
What's inside here
That is actually another stereo viewer
This is one of my favorite areas of the shop
It's one of our specialities
History of Medicine
These are early pharmeceutical bottles
We have here a lot of poisons
A lot of glandular substances
And things that were typically used medicinally
A lot of 19th and very early 20th century
We also have instruments
And other things that sort of make people
Nervous
Those make me nervous just looking at them
What sort of person do you think would enjoy coming to this store?
Doesn't matter where you come from, how much money you have, doesn't matter what sex you are.
What color, nationality.
Religion. The only thing everyone has in common who loves this place
Is that they have a healthy sense of curiousity
Alright members of the Barrio
What a cool place to go shopping
I mean they have gifts from 1 dollar to thousands of dollars
Go check them out
Tell Evan that I sent you
I'm leaving a link in the description
If you want to visit this place
Make sure to subscribe
Leave me a comment, tell me what you thought about the store.
What was your favorite item?
Guys, I appreciate it so much
I've got a lot more coming out from New York City
Thanks for watching.