Yowza Antiques & Sweet Shoppe

Yowza Antiques & Sweet Shoppe is an antique and vintage store in historic downtown Bonner Springs that mixes old stock with new retail on the same showroom floor and runs a vintage-themed candy counter alongside it.

Description

Yowza Antiques & Sweet Shoppe trades on Oak Street in the historic downtown commercial block of Bonner Springs, the small city at the western edge of Wyandotte County. Bonner Springs’ downtown is one of the few intact nineteenth-century main streets left inside the county line, and its retail mix is dominated by antiques, service businesses and destination shopping rather than the everyday-goods trade that has migrated to the highway corridors.

What distinguishes Yowza from a straightforward antique mall is that it does not segregate old from new. The store’s own listing describes a showroom where “old items as well as new retail” are intermixed on the floor — antiques and furniture shelved alongside candles, home decor and vintage-styled clothing.¹ The Sweet Shoppe half of the name is a vintage-themed candy counter run inside the same space, which turns the store into a stop rather than a search: the candy is the reason a family walks in, and the furniture is what they leave with.¹

The store is carried in the Kansas Tourism state listing and in the Visit Kansas City, Kansas convention-and-visitors-bureau directory, both of which treat it as a downtown Bonner Springs destination attraction, and it has been a participating site in the metro-wide Parade of Hearts public art programme.²³

Ownership and history

No owner has been identified. No press coverage, state filing, or listing naming a proprietor was located during research. The Bonner Springs–Edwardsville Area Chamber of Commerce member record lists the business but does not publish a contact name.¹ “

No founding year has been established. “

Address — resolved. The store’s own website records its address as 205 Oak Street, Bonner Springs, KS 66012, matching Yelp, the Kansas Tourism listing and the Visit KCK listing.⁴²³ The Bonner Springs–Edwardsville Area Chamber member record instead gives a physical address of 309 Oak Street (inside UBT Bank) alongside a PO Box 548 mailing address.¹ The first-party address is treated as authoritative and the chamber record as stale or referring to a mailing arrangement; whether the business previously traded at 309 Oak has not been established. “

What they sell

Confirmed from the chamber member listing:¹

• Antiques
• Furniture
• Vintage clothing and “vintage flare”
• Candles
• Home decor
• Vintage-themed sweets and candy

Named brands carried, per the store’s own site:⁴

• Farm House Collection soy-blend wax candles — the store stocks close to thirty of the line’s home fragrances and calls it “one of our most popular items”
• Jamesport Candle Co.

Links

• Website: https://www.yowzaantiques.com/ (Square Online storefront; renders client-side, but address, hours and page copy are recoverable from the site’s embedded state)
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/yowzaantiques/

Sources

Footnotes

1. “Yowza Antiques — Antiques/Estate Sales/Consignments,” member listing, Bonner Springs–Edwardsville Area Chamber of Commerce. Source of the phone number, goods description, and the 309 Oak Street physical address. URL ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵

2. “Yowza Antiques & Sweet Shoppe — Bonner Springs KS, 66012,” Kansas Tourism (TravelKS) listing. URL ↩ ↩²

3. “Yowza Antiques & Sweet Shoppe | Bonner Springs, KS,” Visit Kansas City, Kansas (Wyandotte County CVB) listing. URL ↩ ↩²

4. Yowza Antiques & Sweet Shoppe official website, Square Online storefront. Source of the 205 Oak Street address, the day-by-day hours, and the candle-brand copy. Retrieved 2026-08-26. URL ↩ ↩²