Unique
tchotchkes may be a way to recapture the attention of consumers who turned away from tony labels during the prolonged recession.
Coney Island Convenience, a store featuring local tee shirts, hats and other
tchotchkes will all also take space at 1232 Surf.
Sure, there is always a bevy of vendor enticements to attract attendees, ranging from environmentally green tote bags to logo-branded pens and sticky notes, and plenty of other must-have
tchotchkes. But attendees can also get a chance to pick up a little information during their walk-through.
The thematic exhibition of "souvenirs" strays from the gift-shop
tchotchkes Boym finds "overly affirmative," and instead presents particular aspects from his daily life in Qatar, imbued with a heavy dose of irony, a quality the prankster found sorely lacking there.
Today, Hummingbird House packs its shelves with art for garden and home, including mini metal sunflowers hammered into shape by sculptor Fuller Barnes, plus glass hummingbirds and--thankfully--no New Age vortex
tchotchkes. 100 Brewer Rd.; 328/282-0705.
One finds him or herself meandering through the exhibit hall, talking shop and gathering
tchotchkes one minute, and then sharing life's work and even disappointments over tea or a bus ride.
"It's harder to sell things like antiques and
tchotchkes," said Kathy Cecchin of Conway, who for three years has done business as The Estate Sale Queen.
My bet would have been on tchoktchkes because as long ago as 1990, I saw a headline in the Washington Post which read:
Tchotchkes For Sale at Monticello (no explanation of the term).
Of cash registers ringing up the amazing array of
tchotchkes, from snow globes to glow-in-the-dark figurines, sold with his likeness.Or if the founder of Communist China, who fretted about Aothe serious tendency toward capitalism among the well-to-do peasants,Ao could hear this blithe assertion by a visitor here: AoI think that what Chairman Mao really intended was for Chinese people to get rich.AoA wave of Mao nostalgia is sweeping through China, and it crests here in his birthplace, the village of Shaoshan (pop.
Neulander's essay in this volume, "
Tchotchkes: A Study of Popular Culture in Tangible Form," points out that such trinkets have been existence in American Jewish popular culture since the late nineteenth century at least and have encompassed an array of comparably kitsch items.
Specialty stores with highly discretionary products, such as the high- and low-end
tchotchkes sold by Sharper Image and Lillian Vernon, respectively, may be worst off of all.
Everybody's looking for something when they attend trade shows--from cool
tchotchkes to contacts, potential customers and, of course, solutions.
It's built into the trade--gifts and
tchotchkes arrive at magazine offices every day in some cases, certainly a few times a month here at CRM.
Last year, more than 600 readers e-mailed their pleas for the Tribune
tchotchkes. The morning after the Jan.
He has a huge collection of
tchotchkes, so I have to iliad him a real treasure." And if she had all the money in the world?
