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Tinley Antiques Shop Offers Customers Chance To Travel Through Time

Business & Tech Tinley Antiques Shop Offers Customers Chance To Travel Through Time Journey Through Time Antiques Emporium opened in October and allows owner Jamison Bielic to share his love of vintage goods with customers. Reply
Journey Through Time Antiques Emporium opened in October in Tinley Park and offers customers a chance to travel back in time and rediscover memories of their past. (Photo courtesy of Jamison Bielic )
TINLEY PARK, IL — Chasing down hard-to-find pieces of the past has always been in Jamison Bielic’s blood, which is the reason, he will tell you, that the business plan he always had reserved for retirement couldn’t wait until he, well, retired.
Bielic won’t admit to the fact that he always envisioned building a business around antiques — a fascination he has maintained since he was a kid. But when the urge to offer Tinley Park-area residents a local business that afforded them the chance to travel back in time became too much to ignore any longer, the Hometown resident opened the Journey Through Time Antique Emporium. The one-stop shop for all things vintage opened on Oct. 1 at 17030 Oak Park Ave. and since then, has offered local shoppers and treasure-seekers alike a haven for taking their own personal trip back in time. The shop owner greets each customer the same, wishing them a happy journey as they enter a store where one never knows what they will find.
The appeal of antiques, Bielic said, is simple. “A lot of it is memories,” Bielic told Patch on Thursday. “It brings back so many memories of youth. So a lot of is about memories, but I think the other part of it is saving things that you don’t want to see gone.”
Journey Through Time offers local customers the chance to find items that they may have forgotten about from years gone by. (Photo courtesy of Jamison Bielic) Bielic opened the Tinley Park storefront after selling at the Manteno Antique Mall for the past three years, planning all along to wait until he retired to take the venture full-time. But when the notion that he would be too tired once he retired and the desire to go into business for himself may no longer be there, he figured, why wait? In recent years, Bielic would find himself inside a vintage shop or antique store shopping for his collection when the urge to own space selling the same goods would constantly creep into his head, pushing him to take action.
“It wouldn’t be work,” Bielic’s inner voice would tell him when it came to the idea of going into business for himself “It would be enjoyment. It would be like going to a different store every day but in my own place.” That led him to open the shop on Oak Park Avenue, where customers now find a wide array of collectibles, antiques, and other goods from years past. As people peruse his collection, Bielic says he enjoys the gasps that come from customers when they stumble upon a piece of their childhood, a trinket, or pieces of home furnishings that may have been owned by a grandparent or other relative.
Bielic enjoys watching customers not only enjoying themselves but also discovering a piece of the past that they perhaps didn’t expect to find when they walked into the shop and reliving memories that may have slipped from their minds over the years. Like other retail endeavors, the vintage world revolves around trends of what people may be looking for at a particular time. This time of year, holiday decorations become a focal point as customers come in searching for a very specific piece or a missing piece of a set that may have been owned by a parent or grandparent and that they now want as part of their collection. Some pieces are easy to come by while others present more of a challenge. Taking on the task of locating a rare or hard-to-find piece is a big reason why Jamison chose to get into antiques in the first place as part of a personal journey that has taken him to flea markets, auctions, rummage sales and other places in search of desired collectibles. To stock his store, Bielic uses a variety of sources whether it be an online search, other retail spaces, or an ever-growing number of sellers he knows that have merchandise they are trying to unload. Such people are those Jamison refers to as a little beam in the sky that comes out of the blue, offering the chance to obtain something that otherwise would be unattainable. Seasonal items are always popular with treasure hunters who may be on the lookout for a piece of holiday memories from their childhood. (Photo courtesy of Jamison Bielic) For Bielic, who trends toward Hamm’s Beer collectibles and items from the 1933 Chicago World’s Fair as well as items preserving the memory of the Marshall Field Company for his private reserve, never tires of tracking down items — sometimes living by the mantra of the harder to find the better.

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