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100 Things To Do In Holland Before You Die: #99 - Make A Stop On The Antique Trail At Not So Shabby Marketplace

  Not So Shabby Marketplace  is an antique mall located at 2975 West Shore Drive in Holland Township, sorta near the Harbor Freight and the mold and fire hazard Springhill Suites .  It's a wonderful setting, with some 70 booths selling everything from handmade soaps and lotions to HO Scale trains to mall photographs !   I myself have purchased a bitchin' Urban Cowboy-era Resistol hat from them, as well as a handful of printed books that I've used for this very blog.  Basically, if I'm out on the ol' thrifto trail on my weekends, and I'm up around West Shore Drive, I'll stop in...it's not a  regular  stop for me, but it's one of my favorite antique stores.  Now, in the book  100 Things To Do In Holland Before You Die , the title of this particular entry is "Make A Stop On The Antique Trail At Not So Shabby Marketplace."  The Antique Trail is an association of antique shops .  The ones mentioned in  100 Things To Do ...