Section B · Page 8
The University Daily Kansan
Wednesday, June 21, 2000
Students search for bargain treasures at garage sales
By Karen Lucas writer@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
Vintage tables, shower curtains, CDs, cars, and the occasional double-decker bus are among the hodgepodge that draws KU students to local garage sales.
On their way to Kansas City Saturday, Carolyn Richardson, Hutchinson junior, and Steven Stewart, Leaeworth junior, stopped at a garage sale they spotted in the 2000
block of Massachusetts Street.
For $30, Richardson bought a red Formica table with chrome legs for her new apartment.
"I think it's a good deal," Richardson said. "We saw a similar one at another garage sale that was like $150."
At Cheryl Sharp's sale in the 1400 block of Maple Lane in east Lawrence, Jun Zhang, Lawrence graduate student, pay $2 for nine CDs, including songs by Lorie Morgan and Diamond Rio. Zhang said he had never heard the CDs, but
would use them as background music.
The CDs were among the many odds and ends that seller Cheryl Sharp said she needed to unload because she was getting married and moving to Bermuda. She was asking $12,000 for a silver '88 Honda Civic with 42,000 miles on it. Two baskets of small miscellaneous items, including plastic drinking cans and a dust pan, though, were free.
Lauren MacPherson, Wichita junior, and her boyfriend were also checking out Sharp's sale.
"It's so neat looking at different stuff because you see different aspects of people's lives." MacPherson said.
A wide variety of merchandise is displayed for sale at one of the many Saturday morning garage sales in the Lawrence area. Photos by Jamie Roper/KANSAN
MacPherson — who also raved about a '67 painting of the Sigma Chi fraternity house that she got at garage sale last month — didn't leave Maple Lane empty-handed.
For $1, she walked out with a green velvet magician's hat and silver wand. "It would be nice to wear it to the Renaissance Festival." she said.
A KU student and his wife were the first customers at Janet Muggy's sale on 1300 Road North in Eudora. They bought dishes and a shower curtain, but they passed up the most unusual and most expensive sale item: a white '67 Bristol double-decker bus for $10,000.
"It has an engine problem that's going to take about $5000 to fix." he said.
Her husband, Bill Muggy, is owner of the Jayhawk Bookstore, 1420 Crescent Road. He said he used the bus for charter trips and to shuttle students from the residence halls to his store, but that it was no longer in good running condition.
Janet Muggy said she thought someone might be interested in using the bus for a permanent standing business or for advertising.
In the 1900 case of Kentucky Street, Jennifer Casey, Wichita graduate student, and her fiance, Brian Olliges, St. Louis senior, had a garage sale with Casey's sister and brother-in-law, both KU alumni.
"Since we're poor college students, we're trying to be fair and make everything cheap." Casey said.
Among the sale items were a $5 AT&T
Computer, a five-speed women's bike for
$15 and a $1 Dirt devil vacuum cleaner.
Yet a clay Corona beer mug, about 10
Yet a clay Corona beer mug, about 10 inches high, had a $25,000 price tag.
"It's a joke," Olliges said. "If anyone laughs at it, they get it for free."
- Edited by Jim O'Malley
Janet Muggy surveys her garage sale in Eudora Saturday morning. The double-decker bus was for sale. iazza/KANSAN
soup'nsalad @939.mass
A soup, salad and baked potato unlimited trips bar
Spud Bar
Unlimited trips
combs available
$4.59+Tax
Soup Bar
Unlimited trips
combs available
$3.89+Tax
Salad Bar
Unlimited trips
combs available
$4.99+Tax
The University Daily Kansan
Sundays: All you can eat pasta & salad ban Kids 7 and under eat free EVERYDAY with paying adult.
Soup, Salad, & Baked Potato Bar
Unlimited trips
$5.99+Tax
Coupon soup'nsalad @939.Mass
$2 OFF
not valid with other special.
one coupon per costumer.
per visit - exp. July 7, 2000
...
soup'nsalad @939.Massachusetts St. Lawrence, KS * 785-842-6060
Famous Peking Cuisine!
Recommended by the Kansas City Star
"Listed in the Kansas Guide to Good Dining
Dine in, Carry out & Delivery
711 W.23rd
The Malls Shopping Center (Next to Westlake Hardware Store) 841-4599
Get FREE Checking at Emprise
Designed for people who we
✓ UNLIMITED CHECK WRITING
✓ VISA CHECK CARD
Use it like a check for purchases, or get cash ATM... it's good wherever VISA is acces
No MONTHLY MAINTENANCE FEE
FREE ATM
At 18 Emprise ATM locations statewide.
24-hour telephone banking - Access your Emprise Bank accounts any time, conveniently and privately, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, all from any touch-tone phone.
EMPRISE BANK
2435 Iowa • Lawrence • 785-749-0800
23rd & Haskell • Lawrence • 785-838-2000
MEMBER EDIC
HASKELL & KU STUDENTS:
Get your first order of checks for FREE!
Comfortable & Affordable Living
Whether you prefer to live alone or with roommates, we have a home designed with you in mind. You pick your apartment and we'll do the rest. At Mastercraft apartments we have a number of features to make your life easier. From the convenience of our furnished apartments and managers to our numerous locations acros Lawrence, you will find that Mastercraft caters to your needs with convenience. Call today and make an appointment to see Mastercraft for yourself.
- Studio
- 3BR w/2BTH
1 BR
- 2 BR w/ 1BTH
- 4BR w/2BTH
- Fully Applianced Kitchen
- 2 BR w/2 BTH
- Town House
- 3 BR w/ 1 $^{1/2}$ BTH
- Central A/C
- Town House
- Gas, Heat & Water
including microwaves*
- Private Patios & Balconies
- Swimming Pool*
- Laundry Facilities on site
- Washer & Dryer*
- Friendly on site manager
- On bus route*
- Emergency 24-hour
7th & Florida 841-5255
Maintenance
* Not offered at every unit
REGENTS COURT
19th & Mass 749-0445
---