If you walk into Lucky Haskins’ Antiques & Oddities on Main Street looking for Lucky, you won’t find him—there’s no such person. Owner Adnan Hourani came up with the name while driving south on I–75 through Ohio and seeing a single exit sign for two different towns, Luckey and Haskins. “It said, Luckey Haskins, one mile. It just sounded so cool,” says Hourani. “I thought, that’s what I’m going to name my shop someday.”

Hourani, forty-one, moved his three-year-old antique shop to Dexter from its original location in Lamp Post Plaza, on East Stadium in Ann Arbor, in early March. “I didn’t feel like people took me very seriously [in Lamp Post Plaza],” he says. “I don’t know why. I was kind of like an afterthought.” If he was an afterthought, it’s because Trader Joe’s was top of mind for most people; it anchors the shopping center. And because Stadium is car-centric, Hourani didn’t get much foot traffic.

Things are a lot different down on Main Street. Now he gets plenty of foot traffic and says customers are actually seeking him out. He’s also paying less rent for twice the space. “It’s more of the same good stuff, same good prices, too,” he says. That stuff includes LPs from the ’60s through the ’80s, comic books, clothing, kitchenware, and a huge selection of vintage jewelry.

Hourani is an Ann Arbor native who spent nineteen years cooking in local restaurants before becoming an antiques dealer; his wife, Patty, is from Dexter, and he says they’ll move here once their kids finish school. “The Dexter community is really interesting because I feel like it’s a little secret how great it is here.”

Lucky Haskins’, 8071 Main, 424–0994. Tues.–Sun. 10 a.m.–6 p.m., closed Mon. www.luckyhaskinsantiques.com

If you think old when you think vintage, the Modern Vintage Boutique might surprise you. “Vintage is a style of things, it isn’t referring to old,” says owner Amber Sears, who opened her women’s accessories store in the former Fancy Stitch space on Main in March. “That would be ‘antique’ or ‘used’ or one of those types of words. That’s why ‘modern’ comes first [in the store’s name].”

Sears carries purses, jewelry, and other women’s accessories, and while the style might be vintage, all of the pieces are new. She says she doesn’t carry names anyone would recognize: “I just buy what I like and what I’m drawn to. It’s not a specific brand.”

This is Sears’ third store in Dexter. She owned Frivolities in Dexter Crossing from 2002 until last year, and a second Frivolities location downtown for a few years in between. She closed the Dexter Crossing store and relocated to Brighton last August. She says she loved the new location and business was brisk. That ended abruptly on October 5, when a construction accident in the building next door damaged her space and forced her to close for the duration. She temporarily relocated to another Brighton storefront for three months but says she despised the location. The Fancy Stitch space was available— that store closed after a fire in 2009, but the storefront has since been rebuilt—so she decided to close her temporary digs in Brighton and come home to Dexter to open the Modern Vintage Boutique.

Sears says she’ll go back to running the Brighton store once the original space can reopen. Her mom, Yvonne, will oversee the Dexter store. She notes that the fire that gutted Fancy Stitch in 2009 was caused by a faulty power strip, and adds, “That’s a warning to everybody. Don’t use cheap power strips.”

Modern Vintage Boutique, 8118 Main. No phone. Tues.–Sat. 11:30 a.m.–6 p.m., closed Sun. www.mod-vin.com