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Capitol Hill’s Break Away vintage and thrift now on Pike — and Pine

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The Break Away team on the move

You are not seeing double. The crew at Capitol Hill thrift and vintage market Break Away have expanded with a second showroom in the neighborhood. You can now find the original shop on E Pike and a new second store of racks and piles of thrift and vintage clothing at Pine and Boylston.

How it all fits together, you’ll have to ask Break Away about, but the grand opening of the E Pine space brought a line around the block for “Break Away Steals” and shoppers digging through racks and piles for bargains and sick cuts.

CHS reported this spring on Break Away and owners including Nevin Poyneer and Tanner Callies growing from street vintage sales to a brick and mortar shop next to E Pike’s Late Night Vintage. “It’s like a maze,” co-owner Eddie Duran told CHS, “We have so many different rooms. We’ve got cool music, video games, foosball. You can just come hang out, get lost in here.” Continue reading →

‘We’re the same squad’ — Break Away grows from vintage on the street to a shop on Capitol Hill

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By Matt Dowell

This weekend will bring a celebration of the continuation of a mission of reuse and community on Broadway as Magpie Thrift hosts its grand opening.

On E Pike, the guys behind a vintage shop that opened on the street last year are also trying to build something new. They have a few things they’d like to clarify. Though their brick and mortar spot is new, they’ve been in the neighborhood for awhile.

And their name — Break Away— has nothing to do with the split from their co-tenant next door at Late Night Vintage.

And their prices are negotiable!

“There’s a big misconception. People think we broke away from Late Night,” laughs co-owner Eddie Duran. “But we were Break Away before this store was even a thing. We’re still friends [with the Late Night crew]. We hang out.”

Break Away Vintage Market has taken the east half of the upstairs space in the auto-row era building that has been home over the years to cafes and nonprofits before its latest incarnation in retail. Someday, a nine-story mixed-use building will stand at the corner. These days, the spacious former auto showroom is now divided down the middle by a makeshift wall of clothes racks separating Break Away and Late Night Vintage.

Break Away was one of the original vendors at Late Night’s vintage clothing market when it opened on E Pike in 2022. They stepped out from the Late Night umbrella last October. Besides the upstairs room, Break Away has also filled out a cavernous downstairs, another fun space to explore.

“It’s like a maze,” said Duran, “We have so many different rooms.” Continue reading →

Magpie Thrift, part of larger mission of reuse and inclusivity, to open on Broadway

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Here’s hoping the strong window display game will continue in the space (Image: Lifelong Thrift)

It will be a smooth transition and the launch of a new Seattle nonprofit dedicated to reuse and recycling as Magpie Thrift opens on Broadway this spring.

The new store will take over the Lifelong Thrift space — and mission — on Broadway. Continue reading →

Recycle and reuse? New thrift shop lined up as Lifelong to say goodbye to Broadway store — UPDATE

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Lifelong, the Seattle nonprofit dedicated to helping those living with HIV, is shutting down its thrift division. A change on Broadway is coming but the old Lifelong Thrift Shop looks like it is being set for some vintage recycling with a new thrift entity lined up for the space.

The nonprofit said it is closing its thrift division in a Monday announcement. “We hope to carry on in the same space with a new name, unaffiliated with Lifelong and will be sharing details online and in our windows as they are finalized,” the announcement reads. UPDATE: Lifelong said it pulled down the announcement to update some information included in the post and will be making a new announcement soon.

Details on the timing of the change have not yet been announced. The Broadway store was Lifelong’s only retail location.

Business license filings show a new entity lined up for the 312 Broadway E address. The new thrift shop project includes current Lifelong Thrift director Tamara Asakawa, according to the filing. Continue reading →

Fifteenth Ave E fashion + flea markets: Punk Rock Flea Market makes Capitol Hill debut, Cuniform ‘styling agency’ joins block

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This weekend, Seattle’s Punk Rock Flea Market will debut with an eclectic mix of music, food, arts and crafts, sneakers, skateboards, bondage gear, tattoos, prosthetic limbs, crystals, taxidermy, graffiti supplies, and fashion in its new short-term home on Capitol Hill’s 15th Ave E.

The market will now share the block with another interesting Seattle fashion concern settling in for an indeterminate amount of time on this Capitol Hill commercial strip lined up for big changes.

Thursday night, stylist Colton Winger and the team of fashion consultants that make up Cuniform debuted a new 15th Ave E brick and mortar home for the “personal and interiors styling agency.” Continue reading →

Capitol Hill’s Late Night Vintage Market is a vintage market open late at night — and a lot of fun

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(Image: Alex in the CHS Facebook Group)

The name Late Night Vintage Market pretty much says it all.

But the new addition to E Pike’s retail mix is a deeper cut of Capitol Hill history and a showcase of some of the spirit the neighborhood still touts but can’t always live up to — mass culture subversion, random, one of a kind experiences, and, perhaps the biggest loss of pandemic-era Pike/Pine, late night hours.

The market featuring multiple vendors and, soon, events from Shannon Mendoza and Jesus McCloskey is now open every night but Tuesday from 3 PM to “late” at E Pike and Belmont.

Mendoza says the market was born of McCloskey’s love for vintage and tested with pop-up events around Tacoma as they looked for a home for the project in Seattle. Just as one off-Hill space for the market fell through, Mendoza said the E Pike opportunity emerged. Continue reading →

Checking in: 20 years of Pretty Parlor on Capitol Hill

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Banana and crew (Image: CHS)

By Gabrielle Locke

While we’re thinking about Capitol Hill fashion and beauty that may end up being nothing more than plans due to the COVID-19 crisis, one neighborhood center of fashion, beauty, and more is doing everything it can to hang on through the pandemic and celebrate its 20th anniversary in style.

When COVID-19 first hit, Pretty Parlor owner Anna Banana turned to doorstep delivery to local customers, focused on her Etsy shop, and created an e-commerce store attached to her website — graceful but major shifts for a business that has been in motion since the turn of the millenium.

“In the beginning, I would do doorstep delivery and sometimes, if I knew the customer well, I’d pick them up a Dicks burger and friends, because why not!” Banana says of the early pandemic delivery effort. Continue reading →

No Parking closes its E Pike store — but the Capitol Hill vintage shop lives on

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Ready to open in 2008 (Image: No Parking)

After more than a decade providing Capitol Hill with vintage treasures it didn’t know it needed to have, No Parking on E Pike is packing up its Brooks Brothers suitcases of collectible oddities and moving its store online.

Thank you Capitol Hill for 12 wonderful years! We are moving online. For now you can find us on Etsy – but stay tuned for a future stand alone website – and who knows, maybe another brick and mortar in the post-apocalypse!

In 2015, CHS talked with owner Billy Hutchinson about the shop and its treasures. “A lot of times people are buying the story more than the item,” Hutchinson said at the time. “The stories enhance it.”

The story behind Hutchinson and wife Linda Young’s decision isn’t just about COVID-19. Hutchinson tells CHS he was diagnosed with cancer last November and while his prognosis is good, he is immunocompromised. Running the store right now just wouldn’t be safe.

“it’s been a tough year for us,” Hutchinson said. “But we’ve hung together.” Continue reading →

Fox + the Feather owner closes Pike/Pine boutique to open new vintage-focused Rove

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For Rachel McNew owning the type of store she, and she believes the community, wants means starting fresh.

New paint, new merchandise, and a new name — Rove.

“I think Rove will be a better fit for Capitol Hill because our biggest focus is vintage,” McNew said. “It’s not just your everyday vintage. I’m trying to curate more fashion-forward pieces, which I think will do better up here as well.”

By the end of the month, McNew plans to open the new store in the former Fox + the Feather space at 1507 11th Ave. Continue reading →

Capitol Hill Value Village to close after one last Halloween — UPDATE

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This is the last time you’ll be able to rummage through 11th Ave’s Value Village for a Halloween costume — or a dookie brown leather jacket or some moccasins someone else has been walking in or a broken keyboard or a kneeboard.

The Capitol Hill thrift shop grandaddy is slated to close after the holiday, customers of the store are being told this weekend. A Value Village manager confirmed the closure plans with CHS.

The store’s last day of business is planned for November 7th.

UPDATE 10/25/2015: A spokesperson for the Value Village/Savers company has provided some additional information about the closure, telling CHS that the store has been renting the space on a “month-to-month basis” for years. So, why close now?

“Though unfortunate, certain business conditions have made it necessary to close our Value Village thrift store in the Capitol Hill neighborhood after a number of years of leasing the space on a month-to-month basis,” the spokesperson said. Continue reading →