Jami Frazier Tracy says it was a love of thrifting that steered her into a career in museums. The teenage years she spent combing the racks at the Goodwill at 37th and Oliver nurtured a love for items of yesteryear.
“In thrift stores, you never know what you’re going to find,” Frazier Tracy said. “It’s like a treasure hunt every time you walk in.”
As an intern for the Wichita-Sedgwick County Historical Museum in the 1980s, she’d return to work with discoveries made during her off-hours thrifting trips and present them to her bosses for consideration for the museum collections…