((PKG)) UNCLAIMED BAGGAGE STORE
((Banner: Almost Anything))
((Reporter: Daria Dieguts))
((Camera: Sergii Dogotar, David Gogokhia))
((Adapted by: Zdenko Novacki))
((Map: Scottsboro, Alabama))
((Banner: The Unclaimed Baggage store sells the contents of unclaimed baggage))
((BRENDA CANTRELL, BRAND AMBASSADOR, UNCLAIMED BAGGAGE))
The business started in 1970 by Doyle Owens, Doyle and his wife Sue, and he was a part time insurance salesman at the time and he had a friend in the area that had a thrift store. The concept came together, and so he borrowed 300 dollars from one grandfather and a pickup truck from the other. So, by the mid 70’s, they started going after the airline industry and securing some of those contacts and moved here to where we are on Willow Street. Of course, the property was not as large then as it is now.
((TAYLOR, SCOTTSBORO RESIDENT))
I think I come here probably two or three times a week and just look around because they always have something new.
((BRENDA CANTRELL, BRAND AMBASSADOR, UNCLAIMED BAGGAGE))
So, the best of the best is what we bring out to our sales floor. Things that just meet different criteria from just how much they are worn, you know, if it is an older brand, the quality, things of that nature. And so we bring out, you know, the better items that we stock to our sales floor, and that mainly applies to apparel. Several years ago, we had a men’s presidential platinum Rolex watch that was appraised for 64,000 dollars and we sold it for 32,000 dollars.
((KATHY, CUSTOMER))
I found Lulu leggings for like a little over ten dollars, normally they are like forty.
((CUSTOMER))
I got a fishing pole and an electric cord.
((NATS))
((BRENDA CANTRELL, BRAND AMBASSADOR, UNCLAIMED BAGGAGE))
I have a gentleman who was passing through on business and bought a pair of ski boots for his wife. And they just were a great deal and looked like something that she would like in her size. And so he gets back home and she opens up the tongue of the boot because she says these look really familiar and there was her maiden name. She had lost them a couple years before on a trip.
((NATS))
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