One of the great parts of traveling for modeling is the stores and fun places that you can explore.  Especially when you are booked to work a whole day and you only have two shots!  Yay!
I flew into Chicago to work for Sears and Kmart this week, and was also able to visit la familia and explore the BEAUTIFUL city of Chicago!

Though it is so much fun to live in Miami, with days filled with sunshine and bike rides, the city itself is less than 100 years old.  So, it can be a bit of a challenge to find great antique stores.

I found this store in the South Loop area of Chicago, where many studios have opened up.  It's a store filled with reclaimed items from old lofts, factories, etc.  It was really pretty amazing. 

Check out the website at Urban Remains...

located just west of downtown chicago, urban remains deals exclusively in the reclamation and recycling of american antique architectural artifacts found among commercial and industrial buildings or residential structures. our website collection of over 5,000 recovered artifacts dates between the mid-19th century and the late 1960's. we do not deal in new or reproduction building materials.

rare c. 1915 masonic temple theater "day-brite" etched glass electric sign - hammond, indiana

veryrare and exceptionally unique "day-brite" interior electric signremoved from a masonic temple theater built in 1907. only a two ofthese signs, installed around 1915, were found in the building. theetched "silence please" sign with metal molding around glass containsoriginal disc socket for lumiline lamps used above the sign. the wordsare sandblasted into the clear plate glass on the reverse side. thelight is diffused through the top edge of glass, to give a green lettereffect. measures 10 x 7 3/4 x 2 1/2 inches. according to the northwestindiana times, the mammoth cornerstone to the ornately elegantthree-story red brick building on muenich court was laid may 1, 1907,to great fanfare. speaker for the day was none other than charlesfairbanks, vice president under u.s. president theodore roosevelt. in1921, the masonic building association enhanced the building to thetune of $440,000. as of june 2009, the demolition of the building hasbeen initiated.

Inventory number: UR-3298-09