The parking lot is where your optimistic time estimates go to die.
The Lakeland Antique Mall in Lakeland, Florida, is the kind of place where you tell yourself you’ll just pop in for twenty minutes, and then you emerge three hours later wondering what year it is and why your phone battery is dead from taking so many photos.
This isn’t some quaint little shop with a few dusty shelves and a sleepy cat in the corner, though honestly, that sounds pretty great too.
What you’re dealing with here is a full-scale expedition into the past, present, and that weird space in between where vintage becomes cool again…