One of those "shops" you've seen already in a post here -- the two meals at Six Pence Pub. To some, a dining establishment might not be considered a shop. But its charming decor and delicious food dazzled both of us, so ... I decided to group it with the more traditional shops for the purpose of creating an archive folder at my online site at SmugMug.com. But since I've already touched base with Six Pence, this post will be about the others ... in no particular order.
As always, if you want to pull up a larger, sharper version of a photo, simply click on it. This is particularly helpful if you access the site using a mobile device. There is a link in the previous paragraph to a folder containing images from all of the shops mentioned in this post.
Photo geek stuff: All of the photos you see in this post were taken with the camera in my iPhone X. A few were treated in Photoshop Elements 15 to restore some shadow details.
The Paris Market
The Paris Market is an elcectic retailer at 36 W. Broughton St., the main commercial thoroughfare in downtown Savannah. It serves coffees and pastries, it sells novelties, and it has some perfumes, scented candles and bath accessories (see photo above), as well other odds and ends of interest. On our visit in November, the shop was decorated for Christmas, so I focused my pictures on just the decorations. An example appears in the photo below.
Southern Charms Antiques
The Frayed Knot
Chronologically, the last place we stopped at, The Frayed Knot, a yarn boutique at 6 W. State St., was one Lee Ann looked forward to. In the past couple years, Lee Ann has revived her interest in knitting, so she enjoyed looking through the goods, and I seem to recall she actually was needing some item of paraphernalia related to the craft.
When she asked me to take pictures of the stacks of yarn skeins for sale so she could send it to her sister back in the Midwest, I took the photo above and decided to grab a few others as well, including the one below.
The Gallery Espresso
Yet another respite establishment -- The Gallery Espresso -- also might not be considered a "shop." But it, too, was charming in its own way, so I included it in this post.
The Gallery Espresso, 234 Bull St., sells coffees, teas and cold drinks, including a root beer float (see photo at left) that I enjoyed on our visit. It had been ages since I'd had one of these; it took me back to my childhood years. Also available at The Gallery Espresso are wines and sparkling beverages. It also has pastries, cakes and other desserts, as well as muffins, bagels and croissants. We found a couple of comfy chairs like those pictured below. They weren't far from where people stood in line to place their orders and wait for their drinks and/or edibles.
The Salt Table
The Salt Table, 51 Barnard St., is a boutique we visited on a previous visit, and Lee Ann was interested in looking into it again. It specializes in an expansive variety of seasonings and spices you probably won't find anywhere else.
We bought several seasonings and some popcorn salt (which for some reason, is not easy to find in the Raleigh, N.C., area). Some of the seasonings on display are pictured above and below.
E Shaver Bookseller and The Tea Room
You can find charm all over E Shaver Bookseller and its connected neighbor, The Tea Room, which is just off Madison Square at 326 Bull St. The bookstore is in an old building featuring oodles of small rooms housing its sundry displays of current, old and used books as well as souvenirs.It is cheerfully decorated with handmade stuffed caricatures (for sale) that seem to appear in all sorts of unexpected places. An example of those appears in the photo at the right. Sometimes the creatures are in more conspicuous places -- like on a sofa in one of the display rooms (photo above).
And E Shaver has books, too. Lots of them. A variety like you'd expect to find at Barnes and Noble, only perhaps not as many copies. The photo leading off this post and the one immediately below give you an idea how E Shaver utilizes its limited room space.
I thought my blog visitors in Indiana might appreciate knowing that E Shaver had the book pictured below -- The Essential Robert Indiana -- for sale in the shop. If you can read the price tag in the upper right corner, you can see it's been marked down considerably. On the day we were in the shop, it was on the $5 clearance table.
The Tea Room is a shop in very compact space, but the two women who worked there when we visited were very friendly, helpful and eager to answer any and all questions. From Lee Ann; I wasn't sure what kinds of questions to ask!
Ordinarily, I suppose if I'm were to use a photo to best illustrate this place, I ought to show something representing the tea products that are sold there. Alas, I chose to present the photo above -- these two people, er, life-size cutouts of people, I mean -- greet visitors who want to use the sitting room to sip their teas and/or read any of the books on the grounds.
The cutouts are of Jamie and Claire Fraser (Sam Heughan and Caitriona Balfe), lead characters in the Starz cable channel series Outlander, which is based on Diana Gabaldon's historical time travel book series of the same name. A book about Season 4 of the series appears on the table next to the Jamie character in the photo.
Another shop we'd visited previously was The Paula Deen Store, 108 W. Congress St., which is adjacent to her The Lady and Sons restaurant. We walked through it again to see if there were any new items added. At most times of the year, the shop has its usual offerings of Southern sayings (usually spiced with "y'all" -- see photo at right -- and/or some use of the word "butter").There were plenty of those around when we stopped in last month, but Deen's shop also was already decorated for the Christmas holidays (actually, most stores start decorating for Christmas a week or so before Halloween now). The photos above and below give you an idea of some of those offerings.
Next Up: Everything else ...
Previously in the series:
Part IV: Classic French impressionists on display at Jepson Center
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