Love all things eclectic and fun? Looking for something beautiful, maybe with a little sparkle?
Let me tell you about Savannah Rocks!
“It’s a really great store full of interesting things that you just don’t see all the time,” says owner/operator Shannon Norris. “Ya know, a lot of oddities and made things and a lot of local jewelry as well.”
Norris took his life-long love for curating unusual, beautiful, global items and turned it into a living.
“A good friend owns a mine in Madagascar, another in Brazil,” he says. “I have a guy in Spain who carves awesome eagles in obsidian. I work with a guy in Uruguay and a couple here in America and I build a lot of the really weird furniture and driftwood lamps. Then we find fun stuff here in Savannah too.”
The new brick-and-mortar Savannah Rocks space is just off of Barnard and Congress at Ellis Square.
It’s filled with the peculiar and the rare; fossils, elements, even countless treasures plucked from the Savannah River and the Intracoastal Waterways.
“We really try not to do ‘run-of-the-mill’,” he says. “We’ve got Megalodon teeth, of course. But we’ve also got whale ears, vertebrae, tons of bones. I have piles and piles of bones that we sell in the store. We find Mastodon teeth, Wooly Mammoth teeth and tons of horse teeth, evidently, there were a lot of horses here a million years ago…”
A million years ago or right now, Norris wants you to come explore his new store!
You’ll find beautiful, raw, sparkling minerals, geodes, crystals and turquoise in rarely seen colors. There’s a striking bull skull (with horns) on the wall, a case of hand-forged knives and more. Plus, you can also check out the selections in the original ‘River Street Rocks’ location in the River Street Marketplace.
“My goal is to present things people don’t typically find,” says Norris. “Mainly rocks, ya know. Stones, rocks, minerals, gems and it’s always changing. You can come in my store and a month later everything will be different.”
Want to check it out? Savannah Rocks & River Street Rocks are both open 10 a.m.-7 p.m. seven days a week. Norris says the goal is to keep the prices low so inventory is always turning and he can go out hunting for more. Plus, he says, locals ALWAYS get 10% off!
You can also get a feel for inventory at @SavannahRocks on Facebook and Instagram.
By Reneé LaSalle
Savannah Rocks
33 Barnard St, Savannah
(912) 724-8391
RiverStreetRocks@Gmail.com
