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Southern Pride Antiques, 1750 Startown Road, Hickory, NC (2026)

06/06/2026

Southern Pride Antiques

The old shelves are making room for new stories.

Southern Pride Antiques has a flash sale running in our Etsy shop. Use code SPRINGCLEAN for 25% off everything. If you love vintage décor, antique character, collectible pieces, rustic charm, old bottles, heirloom-style finds, and items that feel like they came with a story attached, this is your kind of sale.

We need space for new listings, and these treasures need new homes.

Sale runs June 6, 2026 at 12:00 PM through June 14, 2026 at 12:00 AM.

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Southern Pride Antiques — 1750 Startown Rd, Hickory, NC 28602 • (828) 855-1850 • www.southernprideantiques.com

06/06/2026

Southern Pride Antiques
National Trails Day — June 6, 2026

National Trails Day celebrates America’s trails, the footpaths, mountain routes, greenways, forest roads, and old travel corridors that connect people to land, history, and each other. Established by the American Hiking Society in 1993, the day encourages guided hikes, trail cleanups, outdoor appreciation, and a renewed respect for the places where generations have walked before us.

For Southern Pride Antiques, trails are more than recreation. They are history underfoot. Every old path had a purpose. Some led to farms, mills, churches, schools, trading posts, rail stops, mountain gaps, river crossings, and family homesteads. Long before GPS and phone maps, people relied on hand-drawn maps, walking sticks, lanterns, canteens, saddlebags, field tools, pottery jugs, pocket knives, and practical gear built to survive real use.

That is where antique collecting becomes a kind of trail work for memory. A worn wooden cane, an old compass, a stoneware jug, a weathered trunk, a blacksmith-made tool, a piece of Catawba Valley pottery, or a hand-stitched quilt can carry the mark of travel, labor, and place. These objects remind us that history was not only made in capitals and battlefields. It was also made on dirt roads, porch steps, wagon paths, and mountain trails.

Southern Pride Antiques buys and sells the kinds of pieces that help preserve that story. We are especially interested in quality antiques, Southern pottery, Catawba Valley pottery, primitive pieces, old advertising, bottles, furniture, tools, folk art, and estate items with age and character. If it looks like it spent a century earning its patina honestly, we want to see it.

National Trails Day is the perfect time to think about where old things have been. That dusty piece in the barn, attic, cabinet, or estate box may have traveled farther through history than you realize. Before you overlook it, discard it, or let it sit another decade, bring it to Southern Pride Antiques.

Walk the trail of local history with us, and bring your antiques, pottery, bottles, and heirloom pieces by for review.
Southern Pride Antiques — 1750 Startown Rd, Hickory, NC 28602 • (828) 855-1850 • www.southernprideantiques.com

06/05/2026

Southern Pride Antiques
National Gingerbread Day
June 5, 2026

National Gingerbread Day is celebrated on June 5, and while the exact origin of the observance is not especially clear, gingerbread itself has a deep history tied to spice, baking traditions, molded forms, old recipes, and the kind of kitchen memories that seem to live forever in family cupboards. National Today notes the day as a celebration of gingerbread in its many forms, from cookies to cakes to nostalgic homemade treats.

At Southern Pride Antiques, National Gingerbread Day feels right at home. Long before kitchens had smart appliances, touchscreens, and refrigerators that can judge your snack habits, families relied on sturdy mixing bowls, wooden spoons, stoneware, tins, molds, recipe boxes, spice jars, and well-loved baking pans. Those pieces were not just tools. They were part of the household rhythm. Marty says antique kitchenware has “seasoned wisdom,” which sounds poetic until you realize he was talking to a biscuit cutter.

Gingerbread also brings out the charm of old-fashioned presentation. Antique platters, pressed glass cake stands, pottery bowls, rolling pins, and enamelware all tell stories of gatherings, holidays, church suppers, and kitchen tables crowded with people who insisted they were “too full” while clearly reaching for another slice. Marty calls that “dessert denial,” a condition most common near gingerbread, pound cake, and anything served on Grandma’s good plate.

Southern Pride Antiques loves pieces that carry everyday history. We buy and sell antiques, collectibles, estate items, pottery, furniture, glassware, advertising pieces, bottles, and the kinds of objects that make people say, “My grandmother had one just like that.” We especially love Catawba Valley Pottery and are always interested in buying it. Marty once claimed he could identify pottery by “vibe,” which is why we kindly encourage him to use his eyes instead.

National Gingerbread Day is also a reminder that the best antiques are often connected to ordinary life. A handmade bowl, an old crock, a kitchen scale, a wooden cabinet, or a worn recipe box can carry more warmth than the fanciest new décor. These objects have lived through real meals, real families, and real stories. Some even survived Marty opening a cabinet “carefully,” which historians may someday classify as a miracle.

If you have antiques, pottery, old kitchen pieces, advertising items, bottles, furniture, or estate treasures, Southern Pride Antiques would love to take a look. Bring them by, browse the shop, and enjoy the kind of history that smells faintly of ginger, wood polish, and Marty pretending he did not eat the display cookie.

Celebrate National Gingerbread Day with antiques that bring warmth, memory, and character into the home. Visit Southern Pride Antiques in Hickory, and remember—we buy Catawba Valley Pottery.

Southern Pride Antiques — 1750 Startown Rd, Hickory, NC 28601 • (828) 855-1850 • www.southernprideantiques.com

06/04/2026

Southern Pride Antiques
National Moonshine Day — June 4, 2026

Marty stepped into Southern Pride Antiques on National Moonshine Day carrying an antique jug with the careful seriousness of a man transporting “family history with a handle.” Around here, moonshine is not just a punchline about jars, backroads, and somebody’s uncle claiming he knew “the real recipe.” It is tied to Appalachian history, rural survival, Prohibition-era ingenuity, old trade routes, country stores, revenue agents, and a whole world of objects that collectors still appreciate today.

National Moonshine Day celebrates a spirit with deep Southern roots, but Southern Pride Antiques looks at the wider material history around it. Crock jugs, stoneware, old bottles, advertising pieces, barware, crates, country store items, and rustic farm tools all tell parts of the story. Marty says some antiques whisper history, while moonshine-related pieces tend to whisper, “Don’t ask too many questions, but admire the craftsmanship.”

The humor is part of the charm, but the history is real. In mountain communities, distilling was often tied to making use of crops, surviving hard times, and navigating a changing legal and economic world. During Prohibition, the cat-and-mouse culture between moonshiners and authorities became part of American folklore. Later, some of that fast-driving backroad culture helped feed the roots of Southern racing history. Marty claims his antique jug “has never exceeded the speed limit,” but we noticed it leaning suspiciously toward the door.

At Southern Pride Antiques, we enjoy pieces that carry regional personality. An old jug can represent pottery traditions. A bottle can show early manufacturing methods. A country store sign can bring back the rhythm of small-town commerce. A piece of barware can recall hospitality, celebration, and stories told around a table. The best antiques do not just sit on a shelf; they start conversations. Sometimes they start arguments about whose granddaddy really had the better recipe.

National Moonshine Day is a perfect time to look around your home, barn, cabinet, or collection for pieces connected to Southern history. Old bottles, jugs, pottery, signs, crocks, glassware, advertising items, and rustic collectibles may have more interest than you realize. Southern Pride Antiques buys antiques and is always interested in pieces with character, age, regional flavor, and a good story behind them.

Marty’s advice for the day: if an old jug has been sitting in the corner so long it has become part of the furniture, let us take a look before someone turns it into a questionable flower vase. Celebrate National Moonshine Day with history, humor, and a little respect for the objects that survived the hills, the hollers, the cupboards, and the family stories. Bring your antiques by Southern Pride Antiques in Hickory and let us see what kind of history you have hiding in plain sight.

Southern Pride Antiques — 1750 Startown Rd, Hickory, NC 28602 • (828) 855-1850 • www.southernprideantiques.com

06/02/2026

Southern Pride Antiques
National Rotisserie Chicken Day – June 02, 2026

National Rotisserie Chicken Day honors a cooking method with deep roots: meat slowly turned over heat, basted by time, flame, and patience. Long before the modern supermarket chicken became a weeknight shortcut, rotating spits, hearth cooking, iron tools, kitchen tables, serving platters, and carving sets were part of the rhythm of home life. It was not fast food. It was family food.

That is the kind of history Southern Pride Antiques loves. The kitchen has always been one of the most honest rooms in a house. It holds the worn cutting boards, the old stoneware, the serving bowls brought out on Sundays, the cast iron passed from one generation to another, and the pieces that remember more meals than any written recipe ever could. Antiques tied to food and hospitality carry a special kind of warmth because they were not just displayed. They were used.

At Southern Pride Antiques in Hickory, we appreciate items with that kind of practical history: pottery, glassware, bottles, advertising pieces, old kitchen tools, furniture, quilts, folk art, and heirlooms that still have a story to tell. When relevant, we are especially interested in regional pieces such as Catawba Valley Pottery, and we are always glad to look at quality antiques people are ready to sell.

National Rotisserie Chicken Day may sound like a grocery-store holiday, but underneath it is a reminder of older kitchens, slower meals, and the tools families kept close. A carving fork, a platter, a crock, a butter mold, or a handmade bowl can say as much about a household as any photograph.

If you have antiques, pottery, vintage kitchen pieces, bottles, or heirlooms tucked away, bring them to Southern Pride Antiques in Hickory.

1750 Startown Rd, Hickory, NC 28602 • (828) 855-1850 • www.southernprideantiques.com

06/01/2026

Southern Pride Antiques — Western Australia Day
From Founding Colonies to Found Treasures

June 1 is Western Australia Day, a public holiday in Western Australia observed on the first Monday of June. It marks the founding of the Swan River Colony on June 1, 1829.

That means today is about exploration, settlement history, old maps, ships, trunks, trade goods, family heirlooms, and the kind of antique mystery that makes Marty McDaniel put on a pith helmet and whisper, “I smell old furniture.”

At Southern Pride Antiques, we believe every antique has a story. Some are quiet stories. Some are family stories. Some are “Grandpa bought this somewhere and nobody knows why but it has been in the hall since 1968” stories.

Those are often the best ones.

For Western Australia Day, imagine Marty as the Gold King Explorer, marching through a shop full of antique trunks, pottery, maps, clocks, bottles, lamps, and furniture with a magnifying glass the size of a dinner plate.

“Behold!” Marty shouts.
“That’s a washstand.”
“Exactly! A domestic artifact of majestic splashery!”

Western Australia’s founding story reminds us that objects travel through time. Old pieces carry the marks of place, use, craftsmanship, trade, and memory. An antique trunk may tell of journeys. A piece of pottery may speak to regional craft. An old bottle may hint at medicine, soda, spirits, or advertising history. A table may have hosted generations of meals, arguments, prayers, card games, and one uncle who always leaned back too far in the chair.

Southern Pride Antiques buys antiques, collectibles, heirlooms, furniture, pottery, bottles, and other interesting old items. If you have Catawba Valley Pottery, antique glass, rustic furniture, advertising pieces, old tools, primitives, or estate finds, bring them in and let us take a look.

Do not let good history sit forgotten in a garage kingdom ruled by spiders.

Let Marty, self-appointed Duke of Dusty Discoveries, help give those pieces a chance to be appreciated again.

Western Australia Day may honor a colony founded far away, but right here in Hickory, Southern Pride Antiques celebrates the same idea: objects have journeys, and sometimes the next stop is our shop.

Southern Pride Antiques
1750 Startown Rd, Hickory, NC 28602
(828) 855-1850
www.southernprideantiques.com

05/29/2026

Southern Pride Antiques
End of the Middle Ages Day — May 29, 2026

End of the Middle Ages Day marks May 29, 1453, when Constantinople fell to the Ottoman Empire, closing one of history’s greatest chapters and reshaping the world that followed. It is one of those dates that sounds like it should be announced by a serious man holding a scroll, preferably while standing near a castle wall and looking troubled. At Southern Pride Antiques, we appreciate that kind of historical drama, because antiques are what remain after the grand speeches are over, the dust settles, and somebody says, “Should we save this?” Thankfully, somebody usually did.

Marty McDaniel, the Gold King, may not have been at Constantinople, although if he had been, he probably would have bought the old coins, the silver, the military relics, the antique pottery, and at least one suspiciously valuable sign from a tavern wall. Marty buys gold, silver, jewelry, coins, antiques, militaria, vintage toys, and advertising, and he always pays cash on the spot. That makes him the kind of modern treasure hunter who can look at an old object and see more than age. He sees story, demand, craftsmanship, and the possibility that Grandma’s “old thing in the corner” might deserve a second look.

End of the Middle Ages Day is a perfect antique holiday because it reminds us that eras end, but objects survive. Furniture, pottery, documents, tools, advertising signs, military pieces, vintage toys, and estate items can all become bridges to another time. Southern Pride Antiques is especially interested in the kinds of pieces that carry regional character and collector appeal. Catawba Valley Pottery, for example, is always worth mentioning because it connects directly to local North Carolina craftsmanship. If you have Catawba Valley Pottery, Southern Pride Antiques buys it, and yes, Marty would probably be happier to see a good piece of pottery than a knight would be to see a working drawbridge.

The comedy of antiques is that many valuable things spend years being underestimated. A collectible may hold open a door. A pottery jug may sit on a shelf unnoticed. A vintage toy may be dismissed because it looks “too played with.” An old advertising sign may be hiding behind garage tools. A piece of militaria may be stored in a box labeled “miscellaneous,” which is the most dangerous word in estate history. Marty has seen enough to know that “miscellaneous” often means “we did not know what this was, so we surrendered.”

Southern Pride Antiques helps people sort through that uncertainty. If you have antiques, militaria, vintage toys, advertising, pottery, old collectibles, or estate finds, bring them in. Marty and the Gold King family can review items locally and make cash-on-the-spot offers on pieces they buy. You do not need to know the whole history before you walk in. That is part of the point. The item may be old, odd, dusty, beautiful, confusing, or all five at once. Around Southern Pride Antiques, that is not a problem. That is Tuesday.

On End of the Middle Ages Day, remember that history is not just in textbooks. It is in the objects people kept, used, loved, traded, inherited, and nearly threw away before someone wiser said, “Maybe ask Marty.” Bring your antiques and collectibles to Southern Pride Antiques and let the Gold King take a look. No castle siege required.

Southern Pride Antiques buys antiques, Catawba Valley Pottery, militaria, vintage toys, advertising, and estate finds, with Marty McDaniel paying cash on the spot for the right pieces.

Southern Pride Antiques — 1750 Startown Rd, Hickory, NC 28601 • (828) 855-1850 • www.southernprideantiques.com

05/28/2026

Southern Pride Antiques
National Flag Day Philippines — May 28, 2026

National Flag Day in the Philippines marks May 28, 1898, when the Philippine flag was first raised after the Battle of Alapan during the country’s independence movement. It is a powerful historical date because flags are never just cloth. They are identity, sacrifice, memory, conflict, pride, and survival stitched into color. The Philippine flag carries especially deep meaning, including the well-known feature that its blue and red fields may be reversed in wartime.

For Southern Pride Antiques, this holiday opens the door to a broader history lesson about flags, militaria, and the objects that preserve national memory. The U.S.-Philippines relationship is complex, and it should be treated honestly. There were periods of conflict, colonial rule, alliance, and shared sacrifice. During World War II, Filipino and American forces fought through brutal campaigns in the Pacific, and the liberation of the Philippines became one of the major chapters of the war. That history left behind real objects: uniforms, medals, campaign ribbons, field gear, photographs, letters, maps, helmets, patches, flags, and veteran estate pieces that collectors still study today.

Militaria antiques are important because they make history physical. A medal in a drawer may connect to a campaign. A photograph may show a soldier whose name deserves to be remembered. A flag may represent a family’s service, a unit’s identity, or a national struggle. A footlocker, canteen, jacket, trench art piece, or wartime document can carry the human side of events that history books often summarize too quickly.

Southern Pride Antiques values those stories. We understand that antiques are not just old things. They are evidence. They are conversation starters. They are pieces of family memory and world history that survived long enough to ask another generation to pay attention. National Flag Day Philippines is a reminder that the symbols people carry, defend, and pass down matter.

If your family has military items, old flags, wartime photographs, medals, documents, or estate pieces connected to service, travel, or history, do not throw them away before someone knowledgeable has looked at them. Some pieces have collector interest. Others have historical importance. Many have both. Bring your militaria antiques, patriotic textiles, and historical estate items to Southern Pride Antiques in Hickory and let the story be seen before it disappears.

Southern Pride Antiques — 1750 Startown Rd, Hickory, NC 28602 • (828) 855-1850 • www.southernprideantiques.com

05/27/2026

Southern Pride Antiques
Old Time Player Piano Day: When Music Played Itself and Antiques Told the Story

May 27, 2026

Old Time Player Piano Day celebrates one of the most fascinating chapters in music history: the self-playing piano. Long before streaming music, Bluetooth speakers, or phones that somehow know exactly what song you were thinking about, player pianos brought music into homes through mechanical ingenuity and perforated paper rolls.

That is the kind of history Southern Pride Antiques loves. A player piano is more than furniture. It is craftsmanship, engineering, entertainment, and domestic history all rolled into one impressive piece. These machines remind us that antiques are not just old objects — they are evidence of how people lived, gathered, celebrated, and entertained themselves.

Southern Pride Antiques in Hickory buys and sells antiques, collectibles, estate finds, vintage decor, pottery, glass bottles, furniture, and historic pieces with character. We are especially interested in quality local and regional antiques, including Catawba Valley Pottery when available.

Local Almanac Note

In the Catawba Valley, older homes, barns, estates, and family collections often hold more history than people realize. Musical instruments, pottery, advertising pieces, bottles, furniture, and handmade goods can all tell a local story.

Before you discard an old item or assume it has no value, let Southern Pride Antiques take a look. The past may be playing a tune you have not heard yet.

Southern Pride Antiques
1750 Startown Rd, Hickory, NC 28602 • (828) 855-1850 • www.southernprideantiques.com

05/25/2026

Southern Pride Antiques
Memorial Day Antiques and Decoration Day Heirlooms — May 25, 2026

Memorial Day began in the years after the Civil War as families and communities decorated soldiers’ graves with flowers, flags, and tokens of remembrance. That older name, Decoration Day, still carries a powerful image. It reminds us that remembrance is something people do with their hands. They place flowers. They fold flags. They clean stones. They open old trunks. They preserve photographs. They tell the next generation who served, who sacrificed, and why the story still matters.

Southern Pride Antiques sees history through the objects families keep. A military trunk in an attic. A framed portrait of a young man in uniform. A folded flag. A handwritten letter from overseas. A footlocker marked with initials. A uniform carefully stored away. A watch, medal, field Bible, service photo, or handmade piece of furniture that lived through decades of family life. These objects can be quiet, but they are never empty.

Memorial Day antiques are not just collectibles. They are witnesses. They remind us that history did not happen only in faraway capitals or famous battlefields. It happened in towns like Hickory. It happened in Catawba County homes where families waited for letters, prayed for safe returns, mourned losses, and built new lives after war. Every old trunk, every worn photograph, and every handmade piece carries the possibility of a story worth preserving.

That is why antique preservation matters. When a family keeps an old military photograph, it preserves a face. When it keeps a service trunk, it preserves a journey. When it keeps a handwritten letter, it preserves a voice. Even ordinary household antiques can become part of a veteran’s story. A chair made in retirement. A tool chest used after coming home. A table where generations gathered. A restored car in the garage. A quilt folded at the end of a bed. These things tell us how people lived after service, not only how they served.

Southern Pride Antiques especially values local history. Catawba Valley pieces, regional furniture, pottery, old advertising, military items, family documents, and heirlooms all help tell the story of this area. Some families know the full background of what they own. Others only know that something came from a grandfather’s house or was found in an old estate. Either way, it deserves careful attention.

On Memorial Day, it is important to say clearly that not every heirloom should be sold. Some pieces belong in the family forever. But when families do choose to sell antiques, downsize estates, or learn more about what they have, they should work with people who understand that old objects often carry emotion as well as value. Southern Pride Antiques buys antiques, including local Catawba Valley pieces, and approaches them with respect for both history and family memory.

Today is not about turning remembrance into business. It is about recognizing that the objects left behind can help keep memory alive. A decorated grave honors sacrifice in one way. An heirloom preserved at home honors it in another. Both matter.

This Memorial Day, Southern Pride Antiques honors the fallen, the families who remember them, and the veterans whose lives shaped the homes, workshops, farms, businesses, and communities of Hickory and beyond. May we preserve their stories with care, speak their names with gratitude, and remember that history is often closer than we think.

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