Mount Pleasant Magazine July/August 2018

56 www.MountPleasantMagazine.com | www.ILoveMountPleasant.com | www.BestOfMP.com feature I t took five years for Carl Page to find a permanent home for his business, a primitive building in an old lumber yard on a dusty, two-lane road along the route to a couple of small, quiet beach towns. More than half a century later, Page’s Thieves Market is still a Mount Pleasant icon, a place where locals and visitors – and, now, online shoppers – can browse for everything from furniture, food, books and clothing to loom spindles and tops to apothecary bottles. But not for long. Page’s Thieves Market, located at the old Thomas-Simmons Lumber Yard on Ben Sawyer Boulevard since 1964, will be no more as of Oct. 31 of this year. The owners of the property aren’t interested in renewing the lease on the ancient building, according to Linda Page, who has owned the company since 1988. That doesn’t mean, however, that the former Mount Pleasant mayor, who turned 60 in June, is thinking about whiling away her time aboard one of the rocking chairs currently for sale inside the somewhat By Brian Sherman Turning the Page TheThieves Market’s Days Are Numbered Page’s Thieves Market has been located at the old Thomas-Simmons Lumber Yard since 1964. Photos by Jess Wood.