The New Ulm Area Chamber of Commerce is clearing out its basement and selling off extra items, many of which are vintage promotional materials.

The list includes former city banners advertising the city and banners advertising the former Heritagefest celebration. Now known as Bavarian Blast, it will be held next weekend.

One table contains a German coat of arms plates once displayed at the chamber next to commemorative mugs. Dozens of old posters advertising New Ulm are available, five for $1, alongside German Christmas Cards from 1981.

A rack full of old chamber shirts is available, which include the former blaze orange Willkommen Committee jackets. The committee has since upgraded to green jackets.

Staff photo by Clay Schuldt New Ulm Area Chamber of Commerce President Sarah Warmka holds up a vintage banner for Heritagefest, now known as Bavarian Blast. This banner and other items are available at the Chamber’s rummage sale

Perhaps the more unusual items include inflatable chairs used for a football promotion years ago.

Aside from vintage items, the chamber is selling old office items including chairs, end tables, file separators, three-ring binders and decorative light covers.

Not every item stored at the chamber was put up for sale. Chamber President Sarah Warmka said many items were donated to the Brown County Historical Society Museum. Numerous items deemed historically significant were already taken before the sale.

Other items, such as the commemorative mugs, were not part of the chamber’s collection but were donated after the sales were announced to help with the sale.

In addition to making room in the building, the sale will help cover the cost of downtown flowers. Warmka said the downtown flowers cost $8,500 a year. Roughly $4,000 is still needed to cover the cost. The rummage sale will help cover some of the cost.

The sale began Thursday morning and will continue to 5 p.m. Friday.