Photographs are a beautiful, lasting way of keeping precious memories alive. So imagine wading through piles of old photos of forgotten family vacations and smelly aunts and feeling the thrill of laughing at people you never even met. Now imagine that you can buy the ugliest shots for not much more than a nickel and show them off to your friends! Add to that an assortment of old broken toys, oddball magazines from the last fifty or sixty years, bizarrely-shaped ashtrays, bottles and vases with bits of nasty gunk still in them, a selection of some of the worst homemade "art" of the "I'm sure Mamaw will love it, dear" variety and you've got the Pirate's Den. There are actual "collectors items" there too, but forget that - the true wonder of this place is to wander through aisle after pile of the kind of junk America is all about. Oh, and if you try to buy something really stupid, there's a chance that J.W. might give it to you free, along with a dirty "What in hell do you want that for?" stare. Cool.
