Uptown Vintage Style Ride Route Announced
The route for the April 21 Vintage Style Ride around the Uptown neighborhood has been announced. The ride will kick off the 2013 season of Vintage Garage Chicago April 21. Alderman Harry Osterman of the 48th Ward and event promoters expect hundreds of bicyclists dressed in vintage to descend on the neighborhood that day. Beginning [...]
Researchers: Vintage Thriving in Chicago
Chicago’s neighborhood secondhand stores thrive while competing with eBay and other websites because their patrons seek “intangible satisfactions,” not just bargains, say researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Rachel Weber and Brenda Parker, associate and assistant professor of urban planning and policy at UIC, studied the survival strategies of secondhand retailers since the [...]
On Your Way to Becoming a Collector
Have you ever wondered what it was like fifty years ago – as you download music on your iPhone, play the latest video game or watch television on your flat screen? Do you yearn for the things your grandparents and maybe even their parents grew up with? If you answered yes to any of those [...]
Vintage Style Ride Coming to Uptown in April
Alderman Harry Osterman of the 48th Ward and event promoters expect hundreds of bicyclists dressed in vintage to descend on the an Uptown neighborhood April 21. The event is set to help launch a season for Vintage Garage Chicago, a monthly flea market there. “A bike ride is the best way to celebrate the arrival [...]
Survey: Steampunk May Be Going Mainstream
It’s been around for some time. In some ways it’s been around since the machine age began. And many fans wouldn’t mind going back a bit- or more accurately, bringing the steam age into the present. We’re talking about Steampunk of course. It seems IBM recently released the findings of a “social sentiment index” that [...]
Chicago Day and New Stuff from the Chicago World’s Fair
One of the biggest landmark events in Chicago history was the 1893 World’s Fair. Officially known as the World’s Columbian Exposition and although held a year late, the event marked the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus’s arrival in the “New World” in 1492. More than 27 million people (stop and read that number again) attended the exposition during its [...]
Winter Garage is Cure for Cabin Fever
It’s a little-known cure for cabin fever- shopping for vintage. The cure is accessible and affordable. It’s as simple as a trip to the Winter Garage. Vintage Garage Chicago will be indoors again for a special run of the Winter Garage at the corner of Granville and Broadway in Edgewater. There are two opportunities to [...]
Five “Must-Have” Vintage Holiday Albums
Looking to have a very vintage holiday? Here are some suggestions for must-have vintage holiday music. 1. Al Hirt, The Sound of Christmas-Best remembered for his million selling recordings of Java, Al Hirt was a staple of New Orleans music for decades. The song with a superb 1960s vintage holiday feel is Nutty Jingle Bells. [...]
Antique and Vintage Shop Locally Weekend Dec 8-9 in Edgewater
Broadway Street in Edgewater will be the place to shop locally for holiday vintage in Chicago this weekend. That’s thanks to the return of the Vintage Garage Holiday Trunk Show and two holiday events at nearby antique malls. The popular Vintage Garage (1134 W Granville) will again be indoors for the Vintage Garage Holiday Trunk [...]
Original Batmobile up for Auction
Originally unveiled in its original pearlescent Frost-Blue white paint finish in 1955 at the Chicago Auto Show, one of the most recognized and popular pieces of entertainment history worldwide will hit the auction block in January. The heavily modified 1955 Lincoln Futura concept car became the Batmobile. Still as striking as when it first came [...]
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