Specials / Events
Independence Day Celebration!
Havre de Grace will be celebrating with a parade on July 3rd (Sunday) and the festivities march right past our store! Feel free to camp out on our lawn for the afternoon & enjoy the parade. Our store will be open all day, with an available bathroom and cold drinks are only 50 cents!!
Look for us in the parade! Barbara will be participating in the parade as a City Council Member, and George will be driving the car (on loan from Adams Chevrolet). Our Grandson Steven will be walking alongside distributing candy to the crowds!! Join us!!!
First Fridays are back!!!!
Join us on the First Friday of every month (May to October) for an evening long celebration! We will be featuring Classic Cars on Franklin Street (check out this video), a picnic area for a "bring your own" or order "take out" food from Vancherie's or any of our other fine Havre de Grace restaurants. We will also feature special sales in our store! Come hand out with us in BAHOUKAVILLE!!!! If you can't make it, you can listen to the live stream coverage on WAMD 970 Radio!! Listen in!!
BAHOUKAS in the opera!! Say what??
Bahoukas made a presence in the opera, by way of a 100+ year old tuxedo jacket formerly owned by Barbara’s Great Uncle Jake. Suzanne Chadwick, a Havre de Grace Resident and a Mezzo Soprano brought the new Lyric Opera of Baltimore right here to Havre de Grace! She wore Jacob France's antique tuxedo jacket (on loan from BAHOUKAS) while performing a "pants role". It was great! Thanks Suzanne!!!!
BAHOUKAS is working towards a "green" Havre de Grace!!!
Bahoukas is a "green" business, providing quality goods that have lasted for generations past and will live long lives in the future. We are trying to expand our scope by encouraging the city of Havre de Grace to help facilitate recycling efforts for mixed use buildings like ours. Check out the article on Havre de Grace Patch if you want to learn more!
BAHOUKAS in the news- An article appeared in "The Record" December 3, 2010 showcasing our front window- a replica of the 1970's windows when our building was "Pitcock Brother's Hardware Store. Check out the text of the article:
An old-time Christmas store window
For those who can remember the Christmas decorations that filled the store front windows of Pitcock Brothers
Hardware Store in Havre de Grace, a stroll down North Union Avenue this holiday season will send you back to the 1970s. Forty years ago, the Pitcock family began decorating the storefront windows of the hardware store with a nativity scene, a Christmas tree and a Santa. Today, those windows look almost identical to how they did years ago. Barbara and George Wagner, owners of Bahoukas Antique Mall, which is in the former Pitcock Brothers Hardware Store at 408 N. Union Ave., made it their mission this holiday season to recreate the windows that were a part of so many childhoods.
“Anyone who has been in Havre de Grace from that time would remember this place as Pitcocks,” Barbara Wagner said. “It’s so fun to experience the nostalgia. We have the original picture of the hardware store next to a picture of our windows.” The Wagners had the good fortune of meeting some of the descendants of the Pitcocks who provided them with a picture of the hardware store at Christmastime in 1970. “We came across the picture and it was my husband George’s idea to search for the things in the picture,” Wagner said. The search for the classic glow nativity scene started piece by piece until the Wagners came across someone in West Virginia who was selling the complete set. “We drove six hours each way to get the set,” she said. “We tried to as closely replicate that as well as have the tree and the garland in the same place in the other window.”
Wagner said the couple found it difficult to find a sleigh and plastic Santa similar to what the Pitcocks had, so they improvised. “We put a wingback chair and have a live Santa there,” she said. Santa will be in the window for visits from the public Thursday through Saturday from 5 to 8 p.m. and on Sunday from 5 to 7 p.m. “It’s free,” she said about sitting on Santa’s lap. “We don’t charge anything. It gives the families and the kids a nice real experience.” The windows were put together the week before Thanksgiving. Santa arrived in the store’s window on Black Friday. “It’s been really great,” Wagner said, adding that it hasn’t been that crowded yet.
“My favorite part is when the families come in, just because they are so appreciative and they have a good time. It gives you a warm, nice feeling.” History of the location The Wagners bought the former hardware store building two years ago to house their Bahoukas Antique Mall. The antique store is no stranger to Havre de Grace as it was located across the street for 13 years before its move across the avenue.
The 408 N. Union Ave. building was built in 1880 by the Bowden family and was operated as a hardware and sporting goods store, according to Wagner. Wagner said the building was purchased by the Pitcock family in 1918 and served as the Susquehanna Garage — one of the first car dealerships in Harford County, which sold Indiana trucks, Willy’s Knight and Overland cars. The building later became the Pitcock Brothers Hardware Store from 1925 to 1988 before becoming an antique store known as the Golden Vein and then the Old Line.
The building was vacant for three years before the Wagners purchased it. The former location of Bahoukas on Franklin Street at the corner of 401 N. Union Avenue was the city’s post office before a “new one” was built a half a block away at 308 N. Union Ave. before the current “new” post office opened on Juniata Street. The new” Havre de Grace Post Office is a generational thing, much the same as the Pitcocks to Bahoukas transformation that’s connected through its Christmas window displays.
News Flash!!!
Chiapparelli's is in Bahoukaville! The legendary restaurant in Baltimore's Little Italy - Chiapparelli's - is here in Bahoukaville!! "Chiapparelli's of Little Italy in Havre de Grace" has been open as of April 22, 2010 right on our corner: at Union Ave and Franklin Street! ! When you visit Chiapparelli's to enjoy their classic italian food, be sure to visit us in our store!
BAHOUKAS was on the Susquehanna Lockhouse Museum's 37th Annual Candlelight tour!!
Not only was the store open and decorated, but also our home upstairs.
George used this opportunity to showcase some of his collections. Check out the PEZ decorated Christmas tree below right (displaying over 230 different PEZ dispensers).
George also had the opportunity to show off his large Cinderella collection. See a small part of his collection below right!!
History:
Havre de Grace / Pitcock Brothers Hardware Store
We have been blessed with the opportunity to have - on loan - terrific pieces of Havre de Grace history! The family of Ralph and Lela Pitcock Mentzer have graciously provided us pieces from the past - photos of our building from the early 1900's, items from the former Susquehanna Garage and Pitcocks Hardware Store (which were former uses of our building) and more. Come in the store & ask George, he will be very excited to show you his display!
A bit of controversy...Cast YOUR vote! (see below)
Click here for a video re: a similar controversy in Pennsylvania!
March 2009 
Dear Editor, (The RECORD newspaper)
A few weeks ago, Havre de Grace’s city hall received a phone call from a resident complaining about the female pirate that is frequently displayed in front of Bahoukas Collectables and Bahoukas Antique Mall located at Union and Franklin Street in Havre de Grace. Apparently the caller complained that she believed that the statue was an inappropriate display and she was concerned that her mother and daughter were exposed to such a thing.
Not long after that, The Havre de Grace Chamber of Commerce received a similar call.
The pirate girl is quite sexy I must say… well endowed, fit, showing some skin I admit. But nothing private is exposed. Wait… I think some of the young women in town are showing more skin than that… real skin, too! And what about that magazine cover I saw in Weis? Did you see the girl in that music video? Did you see Janet Jackson at the Super Bowl? Wardrobe malfunction or total outrage?
Hmm… I wonder what she thinks of “The Thinker” bronze statue proudly displayed since 1902 in Copenhagen, Denmark? He is totally naked!! Oops!
And Michelangelo’s David in Florence Italy? Also totally naked, standing proudly with NOTHING covered since 1504. Oh no!
The Sistine Chapel. Have you seen the paintings that line the walls? All nude! What does the Pope think of that? That has been publicly displayed since 1512! My, my!
How about the mythological goddess Venus? Oh my… naked, too!
Is that acceptable? Can we tolerate that? What do you think?
Pirate girl - Yes? Or Pirate girl - No? Does she need to be censored?
Let’s leave it to a vote!! If you have an opinion one way or another, walk into either Bahoukas Collectables or Bahoukas Antique Mall and cast your vote!! If the vote goes to yes- we will continue to display her. If the vote goes to no, we will censor her when she is out of doors! Voice your opinion!!! Your vote counts!!
Have an opinion? CLICK HERE TO VOTE
by e-mail, typing YES or NO in the subject.
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George and Barbara
Bahoukas Collectables & Antique Mall
410-942-1290
