In every aisle there would be more and more of everything you needed, and some things you didn't know you did until you saw them?

Would you also in your most secret dreams hope that the prices would be so reasonable that you could actually afford to buy what you wanted most?

Take heart and prepare yourself to take a True Jewelry Vacation. There really is such a place, right in the United States.

In the depts of Providence, Rhode Island, lies your dream warehouse, filled from top to bottom with just about everything needed for costume jewelry collecting, storing, repairing, crafting, and then some. Not only does it look exactly like an oldfashioned castle in the story books, but it contains everything except the dream prince--him you will have to find on your own.

It is the biggest costume jewelry components closeout warehouse in the Eastern United States. It contains every type leftover the costume jewelry industry ever produced, and it has been in business over fifty years.

Wolf E. Myrow, Inc.:

The neighborhood is not a castle ground but don't let that stop you. You enter the big building by mounting the iron railing steps, then through a modest door at its top.

The visual onslaught of cartons stacked up to the ceiling starts right there, in the entry corridor. Faux pearls, beads, of every size and color, neatly displayed on the outside. You may not ever want go any further.

But you must go on; you haven't even begun your journey yet.

In 1947, when Mr. Wolf E. Myrow sought to establish a resale business of his own, he started small. In Providence, the Manufacturers Building provided the first fertile ground.

Myrow went from floor to floor, offered to buy up anything and everything that the manufacturers had no use for. End runs, broken assortments, slight mismakes, overages in production, canceled and unsold orders, unused and not needed parts. When manufacturers closed down, Myrow was there, too, snapping up the inventories.

Pretty soon Myrow was well known as the King of Jewelry Closeouts in New England. No longer did he need to ask, the manufacturers came to him.

The operation became so big, he had to take on a partner. The Antonelli brothers became his partners. They expanded the warehouse facilities, eventually added another warehouse. In 1971 Wolf Myrow passed on, an Antonelli son, Anthony, joined the firm, and in 1998, his uncle Mike retired. Anthony and Irene Antonelli are now the sole owners of Wolf E. Myrow, Inc.

Irene and Anthony Antonelli

The service area welcomes you with owners Anthony and Irene Antonelli, their son David, and a good half dozen helpful employees.

On the main floor, deep aisles of stacked boxes, cartons, are already in view, containing the last 60-100 years of the Providence costume jewelry industry's components, from stampings to clasps, and everything in between.

An unpacking and sorting area is a bit down, across the aisle, with computer and lots of space for working.

Downstairs, on the right, is the room of finished jewelry, closeouts of all completed jewelry.

Beads, necklaces, earrings, chains, in every price range, plus items that defy description from hemp handbags to candle holders, pack the many aisles.

To the left, and downstairs, there is the glass stones room, with all glass rhinestones and beads, above it is the plastics beads and stones room.

Upstairs, there is the better rhinestones room where you get waited on in person with assistance to match your stones needs.

Costume Cameos and Scenes Wall

In the deep basement, displays, cartons, gift boxes are warehoused, plus backup of stock available upstairs.

Myrow's also maintains another warehouse for even more stored stock, not open to the public.

Wolf E. Myrow, Inc. is open weekdays from 9 to 5, closed weekends. Be aware that the warehouse is wholesale to the public but minimums on purchases apply. The minimums vary but Myrow's does not cater to strictly retail customers who seek one rhinestone or a clasp for restoration only. Do call for details and directions before visiting Wolf E. Myrow, Inc.