The Bearded Man Speaks: I had the chance to spend this past week with my eldest sister, who along with her husband of 20 years I must credit for my interest in all things old, vintage and being the hunter gatherer that I am today. In 1992 I was blessed with the opportunity of spending my summer with them in Pensacola Florida, a stone throw away from Mobile Alabama, (yes country!). My training for that year began years prior in Dec of 1990 when I spent the holiday break with them in North Charleston South Carolina (more country). There, allot more in Pensacola, I began to see and understand my brother in law’s love to fix all the junk (mostly electronics) people threw out. His father had somewhat of a successful business doing the exact same thing. Stepping into that environment, with him as my “step in” Step father, I automatically become third generation junk collector or at least witness to it. Yep! picture the rebirth of “Sanford & Son”.
Flash forward to the summer of 1993: I graduate from High School and decide to return to Florida to clear my mind. Clear my mind from what my seventeen year old circle of friends in the 90’s graduating from Brooklyn Tech High School needed to clear their mind from-CLOTHING,REGGAE,GIRLS and SNEAKERS. I decided to spend the summer of 1993 in Pensacola, the little town that would deepened my love for yard sales, flea markets and countless hours of browsing the “Thrifty nickle”-the offline craigslist.org of Pensacola, in the 90’s.
As The BKc continues to grow, I come to term with where my love for building this brand is rooted. In 2006 The Brooklyn Circus started as a lifestyle store rooted in NYc street culture. A year into it, I realized that sneakers were only a fraction of my street lifestyle. What about my years of browsing the streets of South Carolina, Pensacola, NYc, Boston and Philadelphia looking for furniture,art,vintage clothing and more. With that in mind, we actively decided to expand the store into what it is today and more of what it will be in the future. For the record we won’t neglect our roots, we’ll only spread them.
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Mar 1st, 2010 #
Interesting piece of BKc History here !
Mar 1st, 2010 #
Nice insight into the conception and the history of BKc! I had no clue you were a fellow Tech Knight! Keep doing your thing, I have to come visit soon and grab a few pieces.
Mar 1st, 2010 #
This is very inspirational and shows that success is an attainable entity, but it requires hard work and persistence.
Mar 1st, 2010 #
Very interesting piece. But as a native and now resident of North Charleston I can most certainly assure you that this isn’t the country. HAHA but then again, almost anywhere down South compared to Brooklyn would be.
Mar 1st, 2010 #
I love this article, being a BKC customer/consumer from the very start. The first time I was told by word of mouth of a “little exclusive boutique” in the back of Nevins I instantly grabbed nearly every up every piece that you guys released. Now I know as time moves forward so will fashion, but it seems like lately TheBKC left street wear out in the cold. I’m in no way saying that what you guys have out now are not ‘quality’ pieces but there is no mix anymore. What happened to ‘quality’ pieces like the BKC all-star hoddie, The BK circus keeps on taking it Tee, the white ‘Easter’ hoddie. Henley’s, Western Shirts and shawl neck sweaters are great but I know for a fact there are many people out there who would also love pieces like the BKC block hoddie with the shoe lace strings, the Lion Head splatter and the BK love Tees. That’s why I was very excited to hear the bearded man say ‘For the record we won’t neglect our roots, we’ll only spread them’ hopefully we’ll be seeing a bigger mix of the pieces out now and ’street ware clothing’
Mar 3rd, 2010 #
deep man this was a great insight on how you think and how the BKc vintage side came to be