Voyager Trading Closing, Big Sale

Jon Verhaeghe just sent me an email saying that Voyager Trading Company is closing. This made me sad. It also brought back a lot of memories. I first wrote about them 10 years ago when they opened in Deep Ellum, and Jon was still making trips to South America himself, loading up an old truck full of interesting finds, and then navigating down the bumpy dirt roads for days in hopes of getting his cache shipped safely to Dallas. He was the Indiana Jones of the imported furniture business. Since that time, he’d moved to a big place on McKinney Avenue, and much of his wares were imported from Indonesia. A good, popular look for less. Jon says he wants to focus on his acting, music and modeling career, none of which I knew he did. So, I asked him. “Mostly foreign films and stuff. I’m huge in Belgium and Luxemburg. Obviously I’m kidding about the acting and stuff. But I’ll let you know my next move.”

He had me going there for a while. Jon was always a good story teller, which is why I almost always quoted him verbatim when I wrote about his store, because he could do it better than most of us. If acting is not in the future, maybe writing?

Jon wants our blog readers to be the first to know about the big liquidation sale starting Saturday. It will go for 60-90 days, and everything’s going.