The tools we build, the local organizations that actually know what is happening, and the guides we wrote for people who buy and sell old things. Free, no email required, no affiliate links.
All of it exists for the same reason: the vintage world runs on knowledge that nobody writes down. These are our attempts to write it down.
Every vintage, antique, consignment, and salvage shop in Angels Camp, Murphys, and Arnold, with addresses and directions. Free to be listed, no pay to rank.
Open the map →The original. Over a hundred vintage shops across San Francisco, mapped by neighborhood and category. The model everything else is built on.
sfvintagemaps.com →Have To Experience. The events and experiences side of the work: markets, dinners, and gatherings built for people who would rather be somewhere real than somewhere convenient.
havetoexperience.com →List a piece once and put it everywhere. A cross-posting tool for vintage sellers that pushes one listing out to eBay, Etsy, Depop, and Poshmark, then ends it everywhere the moment it sells. Built because retyping the same listing five times is the worst part of this business.
Coming soonA foothills events calendar in the same format as our San Francisco one: markets, fairs, art walks, estate sales, and antique shows across Calaveras, Tuolumne, and Amador. Until it is live, the Calaveras Visitors Bureau below is the source of truth.
Coming soonThe town began as a store in 1848. The trading post, the stone mercantiles of 1860, the Angels Hotel, the Sam Choy Brick Store, and where the antique trade actually comes from. Fully sourced.
Read it →These are the organizations we check before we plan anything. If you are visiting Gold Country, antiquing the corridor, or opening something here yourself, start with them rather than with a search engine.
Written for the San Francisco community and just as useful in the foothills. Estate sale strategy, how to tell a reproduction from the real thing, what a resale certificate is and how to get one, what it actually takes to start selling vintage, and how to price without guessing.
Estate sale survival, negotiating at flea markets, spotting real versus reproduction, business licensing, resale certificates, platform comparisons, and starting a vintage business on a hundred dollars.
Browse the library →Long-form interviews with the people running vintage businesses. How they source, what they price, what they got wrong, and what they would do differently.
Read the interviews →Logos, boilerplate, founder bio, and coverage to date. If you are writing about the store, the move, or the platform, everything you need is here.
Open the press kit →A shop we missed, a local organization worth adding, an events calendar we should be watching. This page is better when the people who live here build it.