Newmarket's Main St - Shopping, Services and Movie Star Good looks!
Admittedly I've neglected
Main St Newmarket somewhat of late until nearing the
Jazz + Festival when I returned again to the prodigal son, or daughter as it were. As I scoped out Main for good photo shot locations, I began to notice a few empty units from where
Scotia Bank stood for many a year.
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| Main St's Good Vibes exclusive "Life is good" clothing |
I'd already captured a number of beautiful shots - at least I like them - and was about to wrap things up and maybe head across the street to
Cafe Hesed for a fast coffee before checking out the Fest, when I was stopped on the street by a gentleman seemingly unloading a wack of stuff into a store.
"Hey you're
Tom right?", he said to me.
Ken Sparks'd seen me from my various
video, F.B. &
blog postings and wanted to introduce himself. Turns out he and his wife own the
Good Vibes franchise store there and had been commissioned to sell T-shirts for the Festival,
as well as have a booth at the 4 day event!
Sweet! Good to see that kind of cooperative business going on between Main St. businesses and events, and both seem like good down to earth - Main St type people!
I recall having popped into the location when they first opened but wasn't clear on what they offered, which is an
exclusive line of kids / teens/family clothes sold by
"Good Vibes", featuring the
"Life Is Good" line of shirts and clothing wear with their cool distinctive message logoing. I still want to have a closer look see to see why it is people travel from all hells acres to buy this line as the areas only consumer distributor for miles. The Boston based
Good Vibes parent company also donates 10% to children's and youth causes which is an interesting business model. I'll be back!
Speaking of
T-shirts, across the street,
CanadaT.com has just expanded their printed T- Shirt selection by eliminating the sales of retro records from the store which they'd added for a spell, but which proved hard to manage -
however the
new array of wacky message shirts got me chuckling and thinking as well about some ideas of my own for T-shirt designs. As a visually creative and word guy, it
fits me to a
"T". Ha.
Glenn Wilson, spousal co-owner of
CanadaT's, along with
Olga, informed me that they had done some business on the Saturday during the
Jazz + Festival, and, most notably, when pressed, he agreed that indeed he'd had a busier Saturday than usual and those days in general during it, so that is good. I'm sure he would still would liked to have the T-shirt printing contract for the event but I'm confident he'll be in the mix for next year now that they are a little more exited now about it's potential growth and it's longevity as an event.
T-Shirt Design Contest
Recently I watched a documentary on the origins of the printed message T-shirt. It was a fascinating history and one that inspired an idea to create a contest for designing T-shirts, and perhaps putting them for sale
for the winners in a store and online as well. The good people at
Custom T.com liked the idea too having thought about it before and as we talked I got excited. Hey, it doesn't take much these days! Lol. And judging by some of the outrageously talented artists in the area as witnessed at the Jazz+ Fest, there should be no shortage of entries.
Stay Tuned for future
Announcements and
links here on this!
Other newish stores on Main, in addition to the new
Comic store location,
Goulash House,
Hops Brew Pub and yogurt house already, include a green scooter distributor and one place that seems to have everything including a kitchen sink! Lol. A new
Tea House featuring specialty unique teas adorns the n.w. corner of Main & Eagle beside a now available former bank location, meantime further north on Main S a new Fish & Chips restaurant is being added to the growing mix of
fantastic downtown diners!
Main St. Newmarket now offers shopping diversity wrapped in a charm that any town would envy. And, with the addition of some more new and interesting businesses to fill up the few vacant spots with the right tenants, have all the elements for a working, productive Main St to continue attracting business from tourists and area residents to movie productions & events while also providing meaningful services and products to her patrons! I look forward to returning and spending time in some of the unique shops and maybe let you know some more. Cheers!
TP out..enjoy the pics and info!
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| Arrr Billy!Ever seen a Fish?! |
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| Main St even has the kitchen sink |
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| The real Main St scoop |
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| Iconic Town Clock for sale |
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| No Play for a Day or 4...Special Event Rules |
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| View from Main St. across Eagle St. |
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| The Bank is now gone..Time for Tea? |
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| T-SHIRT Caption: I Saw Regression Made on Main St Newmarket 2014 |
