Crown Antique Mall Inc. — Attraction in Center Township

I guess my first review wasn't clear to the owner, since he felt obligated to condemn me for having an opinion. I'll try to make it a little clearer for his simple mind. Spent about an hour browsing through a variety of outdated merchandise and didn't find anything worthwhile. I had commented that recent visits to flea markets around the chicagoland area had me wishing for the real flea markets of the past. This is more like the flea markets of the past. It doesn't have multiple vendors selling the same junk in every other booth. As a matter of fact I didn't see any of those barely english speaking vendors. That was a welcome change. Unfortunately I saw a lot of outdated electronics, a lot of glass that I couldn't give away at garage sales, and multiple booths with no apparent owner around, and I actually found that I missed having at least one or two of those overseas vendors. On the plus side, The rib truck smelled like it had tasty ribs, but it was a little early for lunch so I can't verify if it was as good as it smelled. I might just go back some weekend if I'm in the area...

Meh, nothing special.

If you're into booth after booth of rejects from Home Goods, Hobby Lobby, etc., this is the place for you. Yes, there are some booths with actual vintage collectibles and antiques, but even those contain the same stuff you see at just about any antique mall in the country. There's absolutely nothing to distinguish this place to make it unique.

On the plus side, everything was clean, and booths were well organized.

There are actually two buildings. Truth is, if you took all the flea market/Hobby Lobby-type stuff away you could fit the legit collectibles and antiques into a little more than half of only one of them.

Lastly, no one working at the building on the right acknowledged me when I walked in or when I left. I don't expect people to gush over the fact that I've walked in, or that I'm leaving, but a simple "Hi" and "Thanks for stopping in" goes a long way. At least the lady in the building on the left said hello.

There are several, much better antique malls along and...

It was bright inside, so you were able to see things without an issue. Good parking, so no issues there. It is two separate buildings, and unless someone mentioned that, we wouldn't have realized. There were a LOT of booths that reminded us of a flea market quality, as opposed to being antiques. Some booths were so small that we couldn't walk in them together. Many booths appeared to just have random stuff tossed in there, and again, reminded us of being at a flea market, not an antique mall. One booth in the first building had inscents that smelled so bad that we couldn't stay in that particular aisle. However, there were still a hand full of booths that actually had cool antiques to look through. We left with something small, but overall, it wasn't worth the drive we took to go and...