Browse the selection online at anmarcos.com, or stop by the store to see what’s new. Open Sunday 12 p.m. to 4 p.m., and Monday to Thursday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at 102-364 8th St. in Courtenay.

Chrome was the modern furniture metal of the time, so he started making chrome dinette sets and nook seats. Along with Beatrice, whom he married in 1943, he named the new enterprise Chrome City.

“Most of it was massive with rounded corners.” Most of it today is also pricier than a chrome dinette set or a truckload of china panthers. Mcnamara has one bedroom suite that sells for $2,999.

The ad sits there between other ads for used bicycles, chrome dinette sets and a chest-type freezer. Karen Stewart is asking $4,500 for the ring, which once belonged to her late father, Elmo Henson.

"Kitchen tables, the chrome dinette sets. They'll want them over and over," said Humphreys. "old TV sets with knobs on them, old liquor bottles. You gotta have the old bottles.