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| mudpiegrl (profile) wrote, on 4-28-2004 at 11:47pm | |
| im looking at columbia college magazine: i found this article...patrice and jill, you'll like it... Mad props Melissa Alderton collects junk like nobody’s business By Amy Jarvis Photo By Donna M. Andrick Propabilities is like a huge flea market where everything is for rent. There is an Austin Powers-style purple circular couch, gilded crosses, antique cash registers, sheriffs’ badges, books, safes, dishes, games, toys, bathtubs, paintings, picnic baskets, CDs, dolls, guns, clothes and rotary phones. There are even wedding dresses hanging from the rafters. This is what’s known in the theater and film industries as a prop house. The owner, Melissa Alderton, 50, has been in business for 17 years, but clearly was collecting, hoarding, saving and stashing things for decades. “I had a lot of stuff in the family,“ she says. “And when Field’s had their sales, well, I love to go shopping!“ The inspiration for Propabilities came when Alderton was working on a photo shoot for Marshall Field’s. “I was doing sets and needed stuff and there just wasn’t anyone doing this,“ she says. So she filled that void. Since then, she has rented props to Michael Jordan, Oprah Winfrey and Joan Cusak. Her props have appeared on Chicago Hope, ER and Starting Over, as well as in Sleepless in Seattle, High Fidelity, The Babe, The Fugitive, Ali, Barbershop and Barbershop II. But she’s always pleased to get them back. “I’m always happy to come to work,” she says. “I like being with my props.“ Propabilities is located at 1517 N. Elston Ave., just off the corner of North and Ashland Avenues. link |
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LOSERxDORK | 04-29-04 3:48pm that is interesting :) |
toki | 05-01-04 12:41am I wanna go there...field trip? Hehe, itd be a party. |