Mar 19, 2012

#THROWBACKTHURSDAY-

The new craze on Instagram these days is a weekly hashtag called #ThrowbackThursday in which people share their old photos and the stories behind them.

Seeing as how we’ve had multiple websites and thousands of lost photos and blog updates through the years, we thought we’d participate and share some of our memorable moments for those of you who have started following us more recently.

2009. KirillWasHere shooting an old lookbook featuring ZakDowntown.

Old Black Friday weekend sale at GalleryBar. That’s Phil Wong, our current art director whipping up the signage for us.

Price in Atlantic City a few summers back, peeking his head out of the DJ booth and paying careful attention to this girl’s song request.

Our old office on 5th street, fondly nicknamed The Death Zone.

Jesse Marco’s 21’st birthday at Goldbar.

Original screen from one of our very first hand printed t-shirt designs. Currently hanging on display of the fitting room at the Outpost.

J.Patt of the Knocks in our Spring 2008 lookbook. Just took at the look at the lineup for Ultra Music Conference in Miami this weekend and saw that they were headlining the main stage on Saturday. Whoa. Black/White baitcaster flannel still my favorite Reason shirt of all time. This was before people started throwing around the term ‘pop-color’ all the time.

Closing retrospective at the Cooper Square Outpost on 6th street. #Throwbackthursday to the maxxxx.

The New Era that launched a thousand ships. Original Piratehat R Rope Logo. Instant sellout. Wish I still had one of these myself.

Before.
Day one of renovations at the Cooper Square Outpost.

And after.
Clean lines, white space, minimalist design. A far reach from the aesthetic at our current store. This was the store that gave us the guts and inspiration to do the way we’ve always imagined.