While the highly specific nature of the Fowlers' product made the French Quarter an attractive location for her business, she is quick to espouse the charms of Magazine Street, where she and her partner operated a store for over 20 years. You just never know who's going to walk through the door. Magazine Street, allegedly named for the gunpowder magazine once located at its river end, stretches six miles from the outskirts of the French Quarter to the Mississippi River levee just past Audubon Park. An area that offered mere pockets of interest 20 years ago has seen its pockets grow and merge into the complete tapestry it is today. Offerings throughout are diverse and may include antique furniture and collectibles such as pharmaceutical objects, Newcomb pottery, Venetian glass, china, Victorian ephemera, rare textiles and rugs from far-away lands, unfinished and country furniture, silver, linens and rare books.
Shops here reflect that attitude.
Exquisite, rare vintage clothing, unique aged beds, Mayan finds, and wobbly old school house desks co-exist happily. The wood's prior incarnation may have been as a panel door, home siding or even the hull of a river barge. The remainder of the street promises antique and modern rugs, collections from Europe, the Orient and America and small pieces from architectural salvage. Like the French Quarter, Magazine street is dotted with restaurants and art galleries among its antique shops. The likeness to its downtown cousin stops there.