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Memory Lane Antiques Transitions to Holly Amber Antiques
We’re Celebrating a Milestone! St. Petersburg, FL— The mid-seventies marked the start of an era in
antiques in St. Petersburg, FL. Susan and Les Claycomb, the proprietors
This issue of The Antique Shoppe marks the beginning of of Holly Amber Antiques and Memory Lane Antiques, would embark on a
Our 34th of Service to the Antique Industry... journey that took a passion and obsession into a wonderful way of life.
Susan Claycomb opened Holly Amber Antiques at her residence on Ninth
Through the years The Antique Shoppe has grown Street, North, in 1974. She named the store after her love affair with Holly
from 12 pages with 10 advertisers! Amber glass. A few years later, Susan and Les would buy Memory Lane
Antiques farther up on Ninth Street North from Helen Wilson. For 20 years,
The staff of The Antique Shoppe newspaper would like to take Memory Lane (honoring Helen Wilson) flourished as one of the top antique
this time to personally say THANK YOU to each of our advertisers, destinations in St. Petersburg.
readers, and website & social media followers who all hold an 2017 would bring about a change of scenery for Memory Lane Antiques, as
important role in continuing to make The Antique Shoppe the building on Ninth Street North sold. Susan and Les would move Memory
Lane Antiques to the Skyway Marina Mall in South St. Petersburg. At the
“The Best Antique & Collectible Newspaper in Florida” Skyway Marina Mall, Memory Lane Antiques continued to expand and attract

We appreciate your comments and suggestions regarding our new customers.
Daughter, Melissa was born into the business, amongst the antiques, and
newspaper. We would love to hear from our advertisers & readers is now a personal property, estate, and guardianship appraiser in the State of
who have been a part of our family from the first issue. A very Florida.
special thanks for your support and encouragement. Susan Claycomb passed away on April 28, 2020. Les moved the business
and set up inside the Park Street Antique Center, 9401 Bay Pines Blvd.,
The Antique Shoppe, PO Box 2175, Keystone Heights, FL 32656 across from the VA Hospital, in St. Petersburg. While continuing to expand
PH: 352-475-1679 • www.antiqueshoppefl.com the business, Memory Lane Antiques, has once again become Holly Amber
Antiques to honor his wife Susan. Holly Amber Antiques, inside the Park Street
Antique Center, is open seven days a week.
Les and Melissa thank all their customers dating back to 1974, for their
Fiddlers Antiques Show Nashville bought by Puchsteins business, friendship, well wishes, and hope for the future. In memory of Susan,
By: Tom O’Hara Les and Melissa will provide antique shoppers, browsers, and the just plain
curious, the same integrity and quality they enjoyed before.
Nashville, TN— Kay and Bill Puchstein bought the rights to Fiddlers Antiques “Holly Amber Antiques….Something for Everybody”.
Show at the Fairgrounds in Nashville, TN. One of the several Americana Country
antiques shows held at about Valentines Day weekend every year for over 30 A Look at Memory Lane thru the years ...
years. The show’s ownership has changed several times, but now will be run The Original Memory Lane Sign ↓
by the Puchsteins. Bill and Kay are popular antiques show promoters whose
experience includes owning and managing the monthly West Palm Beach
Antiques show, plus several other Florida shows, and a Burton, Ohio summer
show.
Jon Jenkins, owner and manager of The Nashville Show, the anchor for that
winter week of antiques at the Nashville Fairgrounds said, “There couldn’t
be a better successor than Bill and Kay,…[promoting this show].” Jenkins’ The
Nashville Show with about 150 exhibitors has been the leader of the week for
the last two decades. ← A rare photo of Susan, Melissa and Les
The Fiddlers Show, named for the motel in which it was held for many years at the original Memory Lane.
and founded by Jon’s father, Steve, was a popular venue which fell in its in
popularity over the last dozen years. This was in part due to the accessibility
and conditions at that
former site. In February The entrance to Memory
2020, for the first time the Lane Antiques at Skyway
show became a companion Mall →
to The Nashville Show in
the adjoining building at
Nashville’s Fairgrounds.
With the change in its
location, the building sold
out of dealer spaces and
enjoyed great success One of the Memory Lane’s
with the shoppers, as easy outdoor markets ↓
Bill and Kay Puchstein are the new owners/promoters of access, parking and the
Fiddlers at The Fairgrounds, held as a companion to
The Nashville Show in February each year additional show on the
same grounds.
Kay plans to fill the hall with about 100 exhibitors, selling Country and
Americana. “My heart is in Country Antiques and Nashville has been the Mecca
for shows with that focus for now about 40 years. Bill and I have exhibited there
for at least 31 years now, as long as we’ve been married.” They will fill the show
with Country and Americana dealers, February 17-20, 2021.
Kay and Bill have already begun telling exhibitors about their new ownership
of Fiddlers at The Fairgrounds, Nashville, TN for 2021 with the reactions
universally positive. For more information contact them at 740-998-5300 or
visit www.fiddlersatthefairgrounds.com