Retro Mania Vintage Market

Such a gorgeous vintage store. It has everything from clothes, old cameras, furniture, books, dishes, lamps, and so much more. The selection is so tastefully curated. It isn’t cheap by any means, but such a wonderful shop

I wanted to love everything about this place before I set foot in it. As the self-proclaimed spot “where the cool kids shop,” who wouldn’t? When I espied a vintage-y Yoda lamp just moments after walking in, I felt reasonably certain that I had indeed arrived, if only for that fleeting moment. The shop is a good size with individual vendors occupying spaces throughout, each with their own unique flair but similar enough in style to give an impression of cohesion. The selection throughout is, for the most part, pretty freakin’ great…if you have a mid-six-figure/year job to afford anything and the time to traipse around finding it. The laconic, nearly taciturn owner does his vendors no favors as he demonstrates an apparent resistance to any interrogative directed his way, especially with regard to merchandise that isn’t his. His precise function there rather mercurial though it seems to involve a fair amount of muttering under his breath, pretending to communicate with his vendors when pricing is missing and shuffling about the shop just close enough to be overbearing before he disappears behind the counter. Though we fell in love with many things that day, neither our budget nor our conscious would permit us a purchase as we don’t believe in rewarding and/or enabling bad shop owner behavior, unfortunate though it may be for the actual sellers. If this is where the cool kids shop, I’m delighted to be the epitome of uncool as I meander down the aisles of more welcoming and affordable vintage and thrift markets. There’s a gorgeous tattoo studio and a charming thrift shop a couple of doors down in either direction if you find yourself in the area that are worth your time and energy.