There’s a moment when you first step through the doors of SuperThrift in Salem, Oregon, when your brain needs a second to process what your eyes are seeing – a seemingly endless landscape of secondhand treasures stretching toward a horizon of fluorescent lighting and concrete floors.
Thrift stores aren’t just retail spaces – they’re time machines disguised as buildings, portals to decades past where the remnants of countless lives gather to find new purpose.
SuperThrift elevates this concept to an art form, creating a veritable museum of everyday Americana that happens to have price tags.
The building itself gives you fair warning of what’s inside – industrial and utilitarian on the outside, promising function over form…