Slog - Comments on Thrift Store Folds http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/04/thrift_store_folds Backstage Thrift, on 11th and Pike, right next to the Northwest Actors Studio, is going out of business. Greg Kerton, a former NWAS student, opened the thrift shop in 2003 to try and help the struggling theater/acting school. The theater is still there. Soon Backstage won't be. Kerton has run up personal debt in trying to keep the thrift store alive. How much? "Too much," he said. "So now I get to go be someone's star employee." "It's a little embarrassing," he said. "I feel like it's my fault—I came at it kind of ignorant about how to run a... Copyright 2008 Thu, 26 Apr 2007 11:15:45 -0800 Thu, 26 Apr 2007 22:20:59 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by elenchos "Thrift Store Folds, Film at 11" would have been a way funnier title.

]]> elenchos http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/04/thrift_store_folds#c702978 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/04/thrift_store_folds#c702978 Arts Thu, 26 Apr 2007 11:32:49 -0800 Comment by Eric Grandy They never had any busily-patterned hoodies when I went there. No Bape, no Billionaire Boys Club, nothing! How do they expect to compete on the Hill?

]]> Eric Grandy http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/04/thrift_store_folds#c702980 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/04/thrift_store_folds#c702980 Arts Thu, 26 Apr 2007 11:35:33 -0800 Comment by Bethany Jean Clement I heard it's going to be... a bar! "Bar Opens on Capitol Hill, Film at 11."

]]> Bethany Jean Clement http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/04/thrift_store_folds#c702988 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/04/thrift_store_folds#c702988 Arts Thu, 26 Apr 2007 11:40:21 -0800 Comment by Gomez People forget that you can only give so much back to the community when you only have so much to give in the first place.

His heart was in the right place, and his head wasn't.

]]> Gomez http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/04/thrift_store_folds#c702990 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/04/thrift_store_folds#c702990 Arts Thu, 26 Apr 2007 11:41:13 -0800 Comment by Aislinn Oh sad! I loved that place. It was one of the few reasonably priced thrift stores in the city. And, they had some of the most ridiculous CD's. I bought the Melrose Place soundtrack there. How long until it's closed?

]]> Aislinn http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/04/thrift_store_folds#c703010 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/04/thrift_store_folds#c703010 Arts Thu, 26 Apr 2007 11:51:03 -0800 Comment by wsb Hi; its West Seattle storefront is closing too, as we noted last week.

]]> wsb http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/04/thrift_store_folds#c703058 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/04/thrift_store_folds#c703058 Arts Thu, 26 Apr 2007 12:33:35 -0800 Comment by mike it's too bad it is going out of business, but that store was way too small, way too cramped, and had way too few of anything worth buying. oh well.

]]> mike http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/04/thrift_store_folds#c703087 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/04/thrift_store_folds#c703087 Arts Thu, 26 Apr 2007 12:57:44 -0800 Comment by Nay Sadness :(

]]> Nay http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/04/thrift_store_folds#c703092 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/04/thrift_store_folds#c703092 Arts Thu, 26 Apr 2007 13:02:55 -0800 Comment by chrisdiani I loved Backstage Thrift! I'll always remember it as the place where I found the adorable sable green leaf-pattern women's bikini bottom I somehow convinced John Kaufmann to wear in one of my movies. Thanks for the memories, Backstage Thrift! R.I.P.

]]> chrisdiani http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/04/thrift_store_folds#c703124 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/04/thrift_store_folds#c703124 Arts Thu, 26 Apr 2007 13:26:05 -0800 Comment by kasa Backstage on Broadway was always kind of lame and picked over, but the one on Admiral rivaled Lifelong, it was so good. So sad.

]]> kasa http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/04/thrift_store_folds#c703338 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/04/thrift_store_folds#c703338 Arts Thu, 26 Apr 2007 16:46:19 -0800 Comment by b this place was one of my favorite thrift stores for clothes and shoes...i'll miss it. good luck, greg!

]]> b http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/04/thrift_store_folds#c703491 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/04/thrift_store_folds#c703491 Arts Thu, 26 Apr 2007 20:50:10 -0800 Comment by stacy noooooooooo!!
this is very sad news.

]]> stacy http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/04/thrift_store_folds#c703529 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/04/thrift_store_folds#c703529 Arts Thu, 26 Apr 2007 22:20:59 -0800