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Barefoot Trader

Unusual Gifts From the Wide-Wide World
Be sure to visit this unusual shop and see the unique and glamorous gifts from the wide-wide world ...plus a wonderful selection of handicrafts from the United States ...Here you’ll see a treasure chest of gifts for every occasion… Follow the barefoot trader’s footprints to our door… You’ll be glad you did.

The Barefoot Trader was a West Yarmouth landmark. It used to have a cement statue of an “Easter Island” head with a torch on top of it that was lit when the store was open. I remember it well.

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1. I also remember the Barefoot Trader very well.  We used to go there a lot during the summers when I was little, (the 60’s and 70’s).  What I remember most is the lobster lollipops and the footprints in the cement walk leading to the entrance!

   Posted by Catherine Flynn Olsen from North Platte, NE on 05/17 at 08:00 PM

2. I wouldn’t want to see how the cape has changed since the quaint days of the Barefoot Trader.  I remember, though I was around 7, the store very well.  We went for a couple of summers to the cape, and always rented in W Yarmouth.  Yes the cement with footprints came back to me.  I also think the building was a tall A Frame, like a Tiki restaurant might be.  I remember tall ceilings to a peak in the center.  I wish someone had a picture of the place.  It was so fun to go in there.  I am having a Tiki Party in July, and have rigged up my outdoor bar, and used the fishing net and float balls purchased at Barefoot Trader as decoration.  Memories…

   Posted by Pia Colucci from Pittsburgh, Pa on 06/20 at 11:07 AM

3. I too remember the store from fond childhood memories of the Cape. I was a little tomboy, who fished day and night, barefoot of course. I adopted the name ‘barefoottrader’ years ago, as the image fit me perfectly.

   Posted by Anne Hodges from Melbourne, Fl on 12/16 at 03:25 PM

4. Does anyone out there have any photos of the Moai statue with flame from the outside of the Barefoot Trader?
   If so, please post them here. I’d love to see them!

   Posted by Pia Colucci from Pittsburgh, PA on 01/06 at 05:01 AM

5. Someone sent in a scan of an old picture of the Barefoot Trader taken in the 70’s

   

   Posted by Cape Cod from Cape Cod, Massachusetts on 12/07 at 02:31 PM

6. thanks so much for sharing brought back alot of memories

   Posted by peteypete1216 from on 01/25 at 04:16 AM

7. I used to carve Tiki heads on the beach at Craigville in The early 60’s and sell them for beer money. The Barefoot Trader was my inspiration. I visited The Cape last summer and went in search of it one evening. I found it. Much changed. Like us all.

   Posted by Richard Davis from Burbank CA on 09/21 at 01:45 PM

8. Richard,
   when you said you went to the cape and searched and found it, do you mean that the building is still there? If it is, what is there now? Did you take any photos? Please post.
   Thank you.

   Posted by Pia Colucci from Pittsburgh,PA on 11/25 at 09:08 AM

9. Yes Pia, the building is still there. You might prefer the memory to seeing what they’ve done to it.It’s become a featureless, grey “physiotherapy” center. I have a picture but I don’t know how to post to this site.

   Posted by Richard Davis from Burbank, CA on 11/25 at 11:07 AM

10. Richard sent a picture of the Barefoot Trader circa 2008.

    

    Thanks Richard!

    Posted by Cape Cod from Cape Cod, Massachusetts on 11/25 at 12:03 PM

11. Oh Richard, how horrible! Thank you for posting, but oh my goodness isn’t that sad. Who ever could think that is an improvement? I wonder what happened to the big Moai out front?
    Thank you again. I will show my sister…
    Pia

    Posted by Pia Colucci from Pittsburgh, PA on 11/25 at 02:29 PM

12. I purchased a postcard from the 60’s, and my husband was sweet enough to have it blown up and framed for me last Christmas!

    Posted by Anne Hodges from Melbourne, Fl on 11/08 at 10:33 PM

13. I always remember the statue holding a long stick with a bag on the end.
    My family and I always use to stop in there during the 1960’s

    Besides the Barefoot trader statue,anyone remember the mechanical statue that stood outside the Plantation Motel in Yarmouth?? It had a mechanical arm which was holding a hat which he would be tipping.

    Also remember the store Treasure Island?? It was shaped like a treasure chest.

    Another gift shop I remember was at the rotary across the way from the Paddock called the Presidential Gift Shop.

    Posted by Carl T from Cape Cod MA. on 08/17 at 02:03 PM