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Vintage Lancaster: Porter’s Furniture
12.10.09 // Posted in Lancaster
The second in an occasional series of expeditions into the secret space/time portals of Lancaster….
Calling Porter’s a furniture store is kind of like calling the Grand Canyon a pretty big hole. It’s that warehouse on King Street– you know the one– with the sexy ladies out front. On the inside, it’s a five-story emporium of pure WTF.
Like a holodeck gone haywire, or a surreal three-dimensional collage, the place is an absurd purgatory of Stuff. Chairs. Desks. Mattresses. Speakers. Crutches. Birdcages. Stoves. Pianos. Dumbells. Rocking horses. And lots of them. Floor to ceiling, with aisles that seem formed by geological chance more than human order. If you took the twentieth century and shook it upside down, this is what would fall out of its pockets.
10 Comments so far
10 Responses to “Vintage Lancaster: Porter’s Furniture”
2:46 pm on December 10th, 2009
crap. now i want to go to Porter’s.
thank you ben.
3:30 pm on December 10th, 2009
dear ben,
more like this please.
3:34 pm on December 10th, 2009
Holy crap! How have i never been in this place…
4:10 pm on December 10th, 2009
I’ve been wanting to check this place out for ages! Now I have to make the time.
4:47 pm on December 10th, 2009
I’ve driven past this place hundreds of times and always wondered what it’s like inside. Thanks for the great pics, now I definitely need to check it out!
4:49 pm on December 10th, 2009
I just went. It is amazing!
12:29 pm on December 11th, 2009
Wow Ben , What a find….
I really want to see this place. Love your comments.
1:31 pm on December 11th, 2009
Porter’s is the best Saturday afternoon stroll you will have!!!!!!!!
4:14 pm on December 11th, 2009
Ah, Porter’s. My grandfather used to like to take his kids (my dad and his brothers) down to Porter’s on a Saturday afternoon and let them run around. After my dad moved out, grandpa would still go down by himself and just hang out.
Then, when we were growing up and lived on New Holland Avenue, when we’d have a yard sale every year the earliest birds were “those Porter’s guys” looking for cheap furniture they could buy for cheap. Always had a beat up pickup truck with them, already half-filled with beds, dressers, chest of drawers, desks. Mom would usually shoo them away since they lowballed on prices and she knew it would just go to the warehouse of lost furniture.
8:17 pm on February 5th, 2010
My favorite sentence: “If you took the twentieth century and shook it upside down, this is what would fall out of its pockets.” Hilarious.