Emerald Isle Antiques & Gifts

Another vendor on 2nd floor - mostly reproduction and craft related stuff.

Front doors of the Old Post Office building.

Main desk and both owners (one is hiding from my camera). :-)

Hand made candles.

Spuds MacKenzie!

A rack of Simply Homemade jelly.

Entrance to the main 2nd floor area.

Actual entrance - on the right in the lobby.

Outside of the building, view looking southeast.

A view across the basement.

A vintage Mills tabletop slot machine.

A vintage dress form.

A really nice 1930s lemonade dispenser I found on a lower shelf!

Steps leading to 2nd, step-up level - mostly art, crafts, & repro items.

A 7Up ad from the late 40s.

Victorian era, a large frame of promotional photos of 1890s stage actors.

The 2nd floor lobby area.

Main exterior sign.

A view across one side of the 1st floor.

An old art deco penny scale - cool!

An awesome little VFW poster in the front entry area - 1953.

My wife found some high heel camouflage tennis shoes - wild!

Don't forget to look upstairs!

A vintage JVC Videosphere hanging TV from the 70s.

Maxx M.

★★★★☆

Mar 30, 2018

Emerald Isle is one of the best antique stores in Anoka.This store is mostly a huge antique mall. It takes up almost the entire "Old Post Office" building on downtown Anoka - 1st floor, 2nd floor, and basement. You enter up the big exterior steps and through the antique front doors. But the actual store entrance is inside the front lobby of the old US Post Office.The number of vendors and the quality of the merchandise is impressive. There seems to be something for everyone. I'd estimate about 10% of the merchandise can be considered non-antique items like hand made crafts and reproduction stuff.I particularly like one of the vendors on the 2nd floor. He has a lot of very high quality, rare, and fairly expensive stuff from early 1900s and a few things from the late 1800s. This dude has really good taste in antiques!My daughter liked the vendor in back, on the first floor, with a lot of music, beer, and Americana related stuff. Many of his things are reproductions but he also has a few originals here & there.My wife really liked the rock & roll stuff in the basement and some of the funky shoes.The two women that own Emerald Isle are also very nice and helpful. We really enjoyed talking to them.Stop in if you're in the area. You won't regret it.