It’s unsettling to see the dishes from your college home economics class on display at a vintage dish shop.

It’s amazing that anyone considered the 40-year-old dishes valuable enough to save them from the Dumpster. Two former professors at California State University, Sacramento, gave the set a reprieve, adding them to their personal collections of retro dishware and small appliances. Now they are regally displayed at a new shop, Dish: The Shop on Riverside, in Land Park. Part museum and part retail space, the shop features dishware and other small items from the 1920s through the ’50s.

“It’s all from an era before planned obsolescence,” says Lee Anderson, one of the shop owners. He is a retired chairman of the design department at CSUS.

“I started collecting in the ’60s,” he says. “Back then we spent weekends doing what we called ’saleing’ – shopping yard sales. I started picking up interesting period pieces that were all made in the U.S. – things like old toasters and Fiesta (ware). I just liked the shapes and the colors.” 

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