In the decade and a half since Wiscasset Village Antiques opened under its earlier name Avalon Antiques, manager Sparky Lindsey has met Barbra Streisand, John Travolta and wife Kelly Preston, Martha Stewart and Kirstie Alley there.

Lindsey tells customers they can take their dogs into the side yard, where Streisand took her own dog. “I was more impressed by that than anything, that she took her own dog out ...”

Lindsey has also seen a man buy a promise ring and later return for an engagement ring. Since then, he’s been back for jewelry as family gifts. “Things like that are important to us ... It’s great to have those relationships with the community evolve like that.”

Then there was the little girl who was a big fan of the “Little House on the Prairie” series. She wanted a butter churn more than anything else for Christmas. The family found an 1800s one there, for about $125, Lindsey recalled.

When the dealer heard it was for a 10-year-old girl, she dropped the price to $85, Lindsey said. Sold.

“We do everything we can to support the younger ones,” she said.

Bringing antique dealing into the digital age for the next generation of shoppers is one of the issues Lindsey works on as a member of the board of the Maine Antique Dealers Association. But she said, in one respect, online shopping doesn’t compare to in-person. “The best part is actually finding the treasure, being able to see it, touch it, see the condition. And a lot of people have cottages, and they need something, but they don’t know quite what ... then when they come in, they say, ‘Oh, that’s what I needed for that blank spot.’ You just know it when you see it.”

The business’ continued success has a lot to do with Lindsey’s familiarity with many of the customers and dealers, according to the owners and a dealer interviewed. Lindsey and the others also cited the Route One, Wiscasset location as a help. Bill Belmore owned it there as Avalon Antiques. He died in 2013; his widow Pam Belmore kept it open and then sold it to Danny Lester and Rick Moore in 2015.

The two Westport Island men renamed it and took other steps including remaking the attic into consignment space. As of early 2017, half that space was open to customers with the rest expected to be by summer.

The sale space isn’t all that’s growing at 536 Bath Road. The owners said the list of vendors as of early 2017 stood at 105, an all-time high, up from about 70 when Moore, now a Wiscasset resident, and Lester bought the business. As of the latest interviews, there was a waiting list. At its prior peak when Bill Belmore was at the helm, the business had about 100 dealers, Lindsey recalled.

South Bristol’s Millie Edwards has been selling her antique lighting and other items there for about a year; it’s her first time renting in an antiques mall, she said. Asked why she picked Moore’s and Lester’s, Edwards cited the traffic it gets and the atmosphere inside.  “A wonderful manager, and it’s very friendly and warm,” she said on the phone at her and Ron Edwards’ camp at Damariscotta Pond. Her husband of 46 years is her right-hand helper in the space at Wiscasset Village Antiques, she said.

The business is open seven days a week year-round: 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. June through September; 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. the rest of the year. The phone number is 207-882-4029.