57th Street Antique Mall — Attraction in Sacramento

TLDR: Rae Dunn & cultural appropriation galore! Don't waste your time, I've read from other reviews that other shops in this parking lot are much better.

Usually you find the casual racist thing in a shop like this, but there were so, SO many examples of this. Caricatures/cartoon artwork of indigenous, Japanese and Chinese individuals in several stalls, indigenous beadwork without any sort of "this is sold by an indigenous artist and I didn't just find it off of Amazon" sign. I lost count to be honest with how much of it I found sprinkled throughout.

If anything, finding things from Target circa 2019, Starbucks cups that are recent from the "Been There" series, and the Rae Dunn items were the least offensive--but still was asking myself why these were in an antique store??

Not every stall was like this (found some cool Pyrex & Tiffany style lamps), but definitely a few that have no business being in an antique store or trying to profit off of racist items.

While I get that the owners of the shop likely aren't the people who own those products, they control who sells in the shop and is allowed to rent a space. The choices of a few are likely to greatly impact the rest of the sellers who genuinely had some decent stuff, but I won't be back.

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I went in today with my family and felt like I was being stalked. Every corner we turned there was a lady watching us as if we were trying to steal. It was unsettling and made us all feel VERY unwelcome. I have never had a bad experience here until today. She wasn’t watching anyone else. My boyfriend wanted to test a guitar he was interested in buying and she watched him the whole time and then rudely asked him “are you actually going to buy that…”. We completely understand if the guitar wasn’t supposed to be touched but there wasn’t a sign and she didn’t ask him to stop or anything.This lady was peering around shelves, trailing 5 feet behind at all times. Every time we picked something up she popped up and asked if she could put it on the counter. If she hadn’t taken our items and written up the prices already we wouldn’t have purchased...

This is your One-Stop shop for almost all of your antiquing needs. There are many stores from which to choose, and many of the stores have multiple vendors inside. You can find just about anything you're looking for, the one exception would be large things (such as really big old signs, stagecoaches, motorcycles and that sort of thing). Every store has a slightly different atmosphere, so don't be surprised if it feels a little dingy. Don't think about going here just for your own needs. If you have a friend or family member that really likes older things this would be a great place to look for gifts for them. It's probably about 70% female centric, but that other 30% has some pretty cool things for guys (and...