Main Street Collectors Mall & Soda Fountain

I didn't find the mysterious missing button here either. My gift on this occasion was discovering books, with authors I had not heard of. I took a couple to a friend who might appreciate the humor of Patrick McManus.

Alot of stuff to peak at and very responsible prices

This place can be an okay place to find some cool vintage items. But a lot of the cool is found between the junk, the broken items, and the mess. They definitely don't make the store accessible to disabled people, with narrow aisles and a crowded floor.

On one visit, i asked to view a watch in the case to determine if it worked. It didn't have power and the clerk didn't know if it had been tested. The worker was a bit snippy and short with me, but I brushed it off as a bad day.

Stopped in again recently, and the same person was short, snippy, and a bit rude. But again, its the holidays, maybe it was a rough day.

Overall, I hope this place can turn it around. This is a quintessential Milwaukie establishment. I hate to see it on the state it is in, with grouchy employees, crowded shelves, and paranoid anti-theft signs everywhere.

Oh and the soda fountain is really the only reason this gets more than 1 star, because the soda fountain is perfection.

Lots of “Vintage” and die-cast. Not a lot of Antique items but really cool if you grew up in the 80’s or 90’s.

I made the mistake of bringing my mom here after hyping up Milwaukie (spoiler alert: she wasn’t impressed). There are weirdly aggressive signs all over the store telling you to watch out for shoplifters on their behalf. The store is full of gross smelling junk, so I’m not sure why anyone would bother stealing something? On top of that, a weird employee who looks like he watches too much anime un-stealthily followed us around the entire store. I don’t know if it was because we were carrying a tote with puzzles to drop off at the puzzle library, but they could have just asked us to leave the bag by the register. 💡 We don’t want your crap. 🤷‍♀️

Always find something great when we are there.

Go to the pretzel shop

Used to be a fun place to go. Wish I could point to when that stopped being the case. The lady who runs the place is weird and paranoid and will comment on your clothes based on what she saw on the security system she spends most of her time looking at.

If you ask to see something in a case she gets mad if you don’t buy it. Sorry I’m not going to purchase an item with damage I couldn’t see without handling it.

Points for the soda bar, which is pretty good.

Filthy - dirty dishes on counter, gross wadded up wet rags, no bathroom (sign tells you, incorrectly, where other bathrooms are i.e. "a block north") inventory is pretty bottom of the barrel yard sale junk.

The soda fountain is a favorite spot for my son and I to bond, as we have for the past 10 years since we moved here when he was 8.

What a fun place to look around. They have a ton of different collections to choose from. If trinkets and memorabilia don't tickle your fancy, the ice cream and soda bar might. Get flavors, high class ice cream, and a true Malt.

A lot of good atuff

Nice to be able to walk around after a meal in downtown Milwaukie, and seems like a cool place to checkout. However, after several visits, and only finding broken toys, and very rude clerks - I don’t think we will come back. Every question is met with a grouchy old response that makes you feel like a nuisance to the store owners/ clerks. To even being yelled at for asking to use the restroom. Safe yourself the headache- just don’t go.

There is a second door to go into for the Soda fountation. Hubby went in and came back out with two scoops of vanilla ice cream for my large fur baby, 2 shakes 1 chocolate, and one strawberry, but I am not such a big artificial strawberry flavor type of person. Was very surprised to find out, that they use very little to no artificial flavoring or coloring!

There is a second door to go into for the Soda fountation. Hubby went in and came back out with two scoops of vanilla ice cream for my large fur baby, 2 shakes 1 chocolate, and one strawberry, but I am not such a big artificial strawberry flavor type of person. Was very surprised to find out, that they use very little to no artificial flavoring or coloring!