Twenty-five dollars doesn’t stretch far these days, but in one corner of Stockton, California, it can still fill your trunk with treasures that’ll make your friends wonder if you’ve suddenly come into an inheritance.
Superior Thrift Store stands as a monument to the art of the hunt, where savvy shoppers from across the Golden State converge to prove that one person’s castoffs can become another’s conversation pieces.
The moment you pull into the parking lot, you’ll notice something different about this place—cars with license plates from San Francisco, Sacramento, even Los Angeles, all making the pilgrimage to what locals know as the motherlode of secondhand shopping.
The unassuming storefront with its orange awning gives little hint of the cavernous wonderland waiting inside, where fluorescent lights illuminate what can only be described as an organized chaos of possibility…