Lisa Pellissier likes junk. A lot of it.
But she curates her junk very carefully.
Pellissier is the owner, and one of 18 vintage dealers, at Pink Elephant Antiques on Government Street in Baton Rouge. Many will know the spot by its bright, bubblegum pink exterior and large, pink aluminum bus that sits in the parking lot of the store with a mannequin in the driver seat that dons a lab coat and feather boa.
The big van out front doesn’t run, but it serves as a billboard for the store. Pellissier found the 1940s van on Old Hammond Highway, and muralist Marc Fresh reinvigorated it so it could remain parked at the storefront…