Couple Sells Dolls And Player Pianos

Friday, August 3rd 2007, 10:33 am

By: News On 6

Do you like dolls and piano music? We've found them side by side. The News On 6â€™s Rick Wells reports you can get a handmade Raggedy Ann and watch the Beer Barrel Polka being played on a piano without any hands.

It's set up day for vendors at the Saturday Market, a day to get booths restocked and ready for Saturday. Ernie and Lois Atkinson have side by side booths and very different products to sell.

"I'm amazed there is still a market for player pianos,â€ Ernie Atkinson said.

He says he occasionally sells one. The heyday for these instruments, he says, was the 1920's.

"When the great depression hit in 1929, about 80% of the piano companies went out of business,â€ he said.

There are new ones being made now, but there's nothing like the old ones.

Lois Atkinson loves it whenever her husband fires up the pianos. People stop by and look at her dolls. She started making them years ago while she was watching her young granddaughters.

She makes some OU and OSU dolls, but so there's no rough stuff, she keeps them separated.

The Atkinsons on the other hand just celebrated their 61st wedding anniversary.

The Saturday Market is located at 5802 west 51st Street and is open all day on Saturdays.

Watch the video: Flea Market Dolls And Player Pianos