Fishs Eddy co-founder Julie Gaines recounts the quirky shop’s history and survival in a new graphic memoir. By Tobias Carroll Nov 13, 2018, 10:00am EST Photo by John Moore/Getty Images.

Fishs Eddy founder Julie Gaines has a joke she likes to tell people when they visit: “We’re the biggest gift shop for the smallest museum.” Open since 1986, her store downstairs is the ...

The Fishs Eddy novel details the origin of the store’s name. Courtesy of Fishs Eddy. The business started in 1985 when native Staten Islander Julie Gaines and her husband Dave Lenovitz rented a ...

Julie Gaines, Fishs Eddy’s co-founder. A white mug with red letters shows the cursive logo of Junior’s — a small vestige from the original 1950s diner in Brooklyn.

Gaines recounts all this and more in a new graphic memoir, Minding the Store: A Big Story About a Small Business (Algonquin, $22).Illustrated in a charming style by her son, artist Ben Lenowitz ...

This offhanded comment reveals Gaines’ categorical approach to collecting dinnerware: nothing is too precious or too common for the Fishs Eddy museum. Started by Gaines during the pandemic at ...

NEW YORK — The story of Fishs Eddy — the New York shop that specializes in vintage tableware — is the subject of a revealing graphic memoir by Julie Gaines, who founded the store and runs it ...

The eccentric collections of Julie Gaines and David Lenovitz, the New Yorkers behind iconic dishware emporium Fishs Eddy.SLIDESHOW: Fishs Eddy at home.Serendipity: luck, or good fortune, in finding… ...

The Museum of American Restaurant China is soon-to-open at Fishs Eddy on 19th Street and Broadway. It will be located in the private sanctum of proprietor Julie Gaines. Here’s a look at colorful ...

For 36 years, Julie Gaines has run Fishs Eddy, the dishware store at East 19th Street and Broadway near Union Square.The shop is named for a hamlet in upstate New York. It all started in the 1980s ...

Times have changed for Ms. Gaines and her store, too. When Fishs Eddy moved from the Upper West Side to a few blocks off Union Square three decades ago, “it was dangerous” to walk in the area ...