Good Ju Ju

Good Ju Ju is a multi-vendor antique-and-vintage warehouse in Kansas City’s historic West Bottoms, housed in the old John Deere building at 1420 W. 13th Terrace. A dealer-run store often credited with starting the district’s monthly “event-style” antique-shopping tradition in 2007, it opens only on the First Friday Weekend each month and is a perennial local pick for KC’s best vintage and antiques.

Description

Good Ju Ju is a two-floor, dealer-run antique-and-vintage store in the West Bottoms, occupying the historic John Deere building at 1420 W. 13th Terrace.¹² It sells a rotating, vendor-curated mix of vintage furniture, mid-century-modern pieces, retro and antique collectibles, vintage clothing, and jewelry — goods the shop describes as spanning the 1880s through the 1980s — and has been voted among Kansas City’s best places to shop for vintage and antiques.¹

Like most West Bottoms antique warehouses, Good Ju Ju opens only on the monthly First Friday Weekend (see the district schedule); it is closed the rest of the month, and shopper lines commonly form before opening.¹²

Ownership and history

Good Ju Ju is an independent, dealer-run operation (a multi-vendor store rather than a single-proprietor shop). It is frequently credited with launching the West Bottoms’ monthly “event-style” antique-shopping weekend around 2007, a model the surrounding warehouses adopted to become the metro’s densest antique district.¹ The individual proprietor’s name is not confirmed from public sources.

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