general furniture

Posted January 20, 2006 • Comments Off on furniture
I just assembled my new nightstand, which is made of two of these.

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There’s metal feet on the bottom one (you can see if you go to the site), and I didn’t put the door on the top one. Each one has an adjustable shelf inside, and they’re bolted together so they look like one unit. It looks very nice.

Especially considering my old nightstand for the last three years was a red and blue pressboard footlocker I’ve had since I started college, turned on its end.

It was purchased at Rose’s (a discount store in Blacksburg*) and spent a year chained to my desk in the architecture lab, holding rolls of paper and rulers and projects and such. Some of that stuff is probably still in there. I open it once every few years to see if anything I’m missing is inside. I know it contains my Super Soaker, the broken putter from miniature golf on my high school senior trip, and the X-rays from when I broke my foot in 1992.

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It looks sort of like this one, except it doesn’t have wheels, or handles on the ends where they’d be useful, and instead of purple with chrome trim, it is bright blue with bright red trim. And of course you must understand that it is certainly much more cheaply made than this one. It’s awful, and the reason it’s awful is that Allison (my first friend at college) and I didn’t get to Rose’s until the rest of the freshman architecture majors had cleaned them out of black and brown and navy blue footlockers. I think hers actually was purple, but I’m not sure.

*One of the few mentions I can find of Rose’s online is here, in this delightful reminiscence:

The first Post office in Blacksburg was located opposite the N&W. property where the feed store is now. The second was in the old Lancaster house opposite Brown Bros. Store, it was then moved to the location now used as Blue Grass Meat Market, from there it was moved to the location that is the Greek restaurant, later to a store building by the William Preston Hotel, from there to side entrance of Rose’s 5&10, thence to its present building.

The post office in Blacksburg when I lived there was on South Main Street, not far from the Underground.