Name of business: Sell It Again Sam
Location: 632 Jackson St.; Anderson; 640-8991
Owner: Eva Angelopoulos
Opened: Feb. 8, 2012
Hours: Tuesday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.; Saturday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Closed: Sunday and Monday
Services: Sell It Again Sam features furniture, home accessories, gifts, jewelry and other special unique items.
In the owner’s words: After more than 30 years in the restaurant business, Eva Angelopoulos decided it was time to hang up the apron, put away the spatula and open a retail store where she could have some fun.
“I always wanted to do this, but I never had time to do this,” Angelopoulos said. “I guess now is the time.”
The shop, which Angelopoulos and her husband, Chris, have used as offices for several years to run their three Eva’s Pancake House restaurants — in Anderson, Muncie and Pendleton — reminds her of places she’s seen while traveling in Europe. There’s a small gas stove to one side, a spiral staircase leading to a second floor and an exposed brick interior.
“I just love this building because it’s so unique and cozy,” she said.
The first thing customers see when they enter is Angelopoulos’ collection of jewelry, trinkets, handbags, scarves and handmade soaps. She’s particularly proud of the jewelry collection. The pieces come from sources as far away as California, Texas and New Mexico.
“The pieces we bring in are unique. We don’t have more than one of each,” Angelopoulos said, although that design may be available in several different colors.
“You’re not going to buy a necklace here and have 23 other people wearing the same necklace ... I wanted unique, but not pricey,” she said.
A Chicago native, Angelopoulos moved to Anderson in 1998 after a daughter enrolled at Anderson University.
At the time, Angelopoulos was a sales director for Mary Kay Cosmetics. She traveled frequently but also helped her husband with the family restaurants. She recalled being reluctant to leave the big city for Anderson at first, but she quickly became a fan.
“When I came here I saw a really nice town. I’m a Midwest person and couldn’t live anywhere else,” she said.
And Angelopoulos is committed to doing her part to create a vibrant downtown, support other local business and create jobs.
“I shop locally. If someone local has a hardware store, I go there first to find what I need.”
Angelopoulos said she’s tired of hearing people lament the closing of some venerable business and offers a simple message to keep them around: “If you want them to stay, you have to support them.”
Angelopoulos isn’t content with just opening her own store, however. In the next several months, she plans to convert a building next door into a mini-mall so other local residents can open their own businesses.
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Eva Angelopoulos, left, and her husband, Chris, at the service desk of her new store, Sell It Again Sam. Opening a retail shop was always a dream she had. Stuart Hirsh / The Herald Bulletin
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