News & Updates September 2024
Hey Local Vyntage dudes and dudettes! Welcome to another News & Updates with LV. Lots has happened here in the last couple of months, and there’s a lot of exciting things to come as we start to gear up for the holiday season! So, without further ado, let’s get into what you might have missed and what we’re excited about past, present, and future!
New Tee Designs
Over the last two months, we’ve released over 10 new tee designs!
Starting with the one closest to where we call home, we released a Hi-Lo Foods tee. Hi-Lo used to be right across from our location in Jamaica Plain, MA! Also close to us here in Massachusetts, we released three tees for Riverside Park: Riverside Vintage, Riverside Amusement Park, and Riverside Speedway. Riverside was where New Englanders went for the "big" amusement park experience, concerts, racing, and more! Another MA classic, we released Cape Cod Coliseum, based on the iconic South Yarmouth venue. Over the years, the Coliseum was host to concerts and every sport from hockey to tennis to WWF events! Finally, our newest northern New England design is LaVerdiere’s! Apart from just your average drug store, LaVerdiere's also sold convenience items, toys, Halloween and Christmas decorations, and in the 1980s, some locations also featured an arcade, called Action Family Arcade.
Many of our new tee designs were huge tourist attractions, much like Frontier Town was in the Adirondacks! This latest tee serves as a flash back to our time spent in this Wild West themed park, complete with butter churning, trick riders, stagecoach bandits, and plenty of other Wild Western reenactments!
We also released several tees with a more widespread presence in the United States, Cunningham’s and Builders Square! Cunningham Drugs spanned 8 states from New York to Wisconsin, even including some locations in the Sunshine State of Florida. Who didn’t want one of the greatest drug stores to come out of Detroit in their area?! Similarly, everyone loved Builders Square, and by the end of its run, this home improvement store had locations in almost every state in the U.S.!
These last couple months, we also took a new spin on some of our classic tee designs by introducing Bradlees 90s and Korvettes! Our Bradlees 90s tee is the logo many of us associate with Bradlees. But don’t worry. For those of us who remember the classic Bradlees logo, we still have that available for you in both tees and hoodies! As for Korvettes, we know there’s always been a huge debate on whether it’s “Korvette” or “Korvettes”. Well, now you don’t have to choose! We have both options available for you.
Finally, we continue to add new tee color options for current designs, as well as adding hoodies for some designs! Over the next few weeks we’ll be adding a red tee option for Foley’s, as well as Connecticut Basketball and Harmony House hoodies!
An Expanding Map
This last month, we also added a bunch of new areas to our map! Those of you in states like California, Illinois, the Carolinas (along with many other states) now have the option to browse by your area! While we’ve had designs for most of these areas for some time now, those tees weren’t yet officially associated with those new areas. But now they are! Browsing for yourself or a loved-one in a different state just got way easier! Just head over to our primary apparel collection page and filter by your state and/or city! If you're on a desktop PC, you can also hit the “Choose Collection” menu button near the top of the page to view and use our map to make your area selections.
Latest Blog Posts
As we do monthly, new blog posts were published in August and September! If you haven’t read them yet, you might be missing out on some fun memories and some interesting new information too!
August: Your Kids Back-to-School Doesn’t Meet The Mark
August, for most of us, means it’s back-to-school season. In recent years, this means a lot of checking Instagram to see what items are trending, shopping on Amazon, pressing “place order” and boom, you’re done! All the best school clothes and supplies are secured within a few minutes. Back in the day though, going back to school was a way more dramatic experience. Then, it required battles through the mall, fighting against paper bags to cover books, and of course, just tons of hairspray (apologies to the ozone layer). With that in mind, let’s take a look back at what back-to-school looked like in the 80s and 90s… Continue reading
September: 100% Cotton: Have You Been Duped?
For the last several decades, we’ve been told by the powers-that-be that 100% cotton is 100% superior to any mixed-material clothing. And some of us 100% bought into that propaganda. “It’s healthier, it’s more breathable, it lasts longer - the all around better option,” or something along those lines. But what if we told you that’s a myth?... Continue reading
Our Birthday & Upcoming Sale Events
In other exciting news, Local Vyntage just turned 7 years old on September 20th! This month marks 7 years of us sharing our passion for nostalgia with our community. We couldn’t have made it this far without you and your support. So, thank you so much for continuing to order with us and spreading the word about what we do here at LV!
To celebrate, we decided to have a flash sale last week! Flash sales are infrequent, and similar to most of our flash sales throughout the year (and by definition), it was very short and not announced in advance. However, there are some sales coming up that you can always count on us having. That’s right, Orange Thursday and holiday shopping season are almost upon us!
For those of you who are new to Local Vyntage, we invented Orange Thursday. It takes place the Thursday before Halloween every year. After all the supply chain and delivery delay issues that impacted holiday shopping in 2020, we decided we needed to create our own shopping holiday. And while supply chain issues are mostly now just a bad memory of the pandemic, the original intention behind Orange Thursday remains as relevant as ever! Fact is, Local Vyntage is a small business with limited space for inventory. By shopping early, we can help you make sure you get the tees you want and receive them in time for your holiday gifting! Stay tuned to our emails to see what deals this Orange Thursday will bring!
Starting with Orange Thursday, holiday shopping will be in full swing! Before we know it, the Black Friday, Small Business Saturday, and Cyber Monday shopping events will be here!
If you made it this far, you’ll be excited to find out about a ton of new tee releases before the end of the year. A little birdy says we have over 50 new tee designs coming to you before 2025, but you didn’t hear it from me!
Bonus: Which celebrity was recently seen in one of our Caldor tees?
Did you see Jerry O’Connell sporting an orange Caldor tee from LV? Between filming The Talk and his recent guest appearance on Big Brother, he was seen in an LV Caldor shirt, which was purchased for him by a friend. You can head on over to his instagram and see it for yourself, or go straight to our shop and grab a Caldor tee to start twinning with Jerry O’Connell today!