Waited until 1:20 on a Saturday, never opened at 1:00. Several people were waiting. What kind of business practice is that. Guess they don't want the sales.
I have never been able to enter this place because it is always closed. How does one get in? The hours of operation need to be taken with a grain of salt.
The owner of this yard is a hoarder, and like all hoarders he over-values his junk. This is not the place to go if you hope to find a deal.
The sad part is that only a small portion of the hoard is adequately protected from the weather. Most of it is decaying beyond use, particularly anything wooden. There's a bounty of hinges, mixed with door locks and other random scraps, in dilapidated dressers where the drawers are twisted and stuck in a semi-open state. There's a fair selection of hanging light fixtures that could possibly still be rescued. Lots of claw bathtub feet. Lots of ceramic faucet handles.
My suggestion is to wait for the day that the junkyard changes hands. That day you'll find something worth saving for the right price, hopefully. Otherwise, if you want to venture there now, wear gloves to protect against sharp edges. Don't take children.
What a cool place! You should be able to find basically anything you can imagine (lots of clawfoot tub feet!), and most valuably Tom is a trove of knowledge. We spoke to 4 businesses who all gave us advice ranging from "you need a welder" to "you'll need to drill holes in your tub for a custom bracket installation". Turns out our old feet are totally fine and all that is needed are square nails to install...which is the original design, but apparently only Tom knew this!
Great place for up cycling project with you children. Took my 10 years olds, and we got some fun stuff to decorate their rooms, and a base that we turned into a table. Great prices and fun for those DYIers.
If you are just shopping around, or actually looking for something specific that NO ONE ELSE can find... come to this place, Tom has everything you can think of for restoring your house to what it once was in its prime
Lots of neat stuff but everything I asked about was not for sale. Just like trying to buy old cars. "I'm going to restore it some day" yet it is so buried in leaves, dirt and other items that you know it has been there for years and will be in the same place 10 years from now. Only rotted beyond use.
Go here if you wanna walk outside through an acre of pure junk. We were looking for midmod drawer handles and only left with vintage Colorado license plates.
Everything about this place took me back to my childhood, until my girlfriend was asked to pay $50 reentry fee to look for my phone that I left in the bathroom.
After having searched in vain at Home Depot and Ace Hardware I stopped by Queen City. The owner helped me find just the parts I needed to fix some original doorknobs in my girlfriend’s old home. The price was reasonable and came with some free Denver lore.
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