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Downtown Fashion Walk

Quick Hat Tip to Downtown's Retail History

By Ed Fuentes — September 17, 2009

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HAT WALK: In his youth, Baltazar Rosa worked for New York Hats until the demand for derbys and fedoras slowed down in the 80s. Rosa then opened up a smaller hat stand in the long interior corridor that was once the Old Chocolate Shoppe.

Outside, on 6th street between Broadway and Spring, there is a small painted sign that reads New York Hats, making his stall and location a link to Downtown's retail history. The original New York Hats now houses Bert Green Fine Art, and you can still see the terrazzo floor at the entrance. — Continued Inside...


Fashion Walk Debuts With Hits and Misses

By Ed Fuentes — August 21, 2009
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Shane Guffogg of Pharmaka has often told the story of the first Art Walk, in May of 2004. 12 people came to his gallery and they were all friends of his. The first Downtown Fashion Walk had easily tripled that by 6pm.


Hidden Treasure: Chanelli on Broadway

By Katie Kay — August 20, 2009

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|Photo Gallery| Anytime one adventures with Brady Westwater they'll need to expect the unexpected. After all, he knows each and every back corner hat shop, the interesting cat lady on Main St and in this case Mark, owner and importer of Chanelli at 625 S. Broadway. Brady is Downtown's answer to the Pied Piper -- only with a twisted sense of great business and development....


Downtown Fashion Walk Makes Its Entrance

By Eric Richardson — August 19, 2009

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The first Downtown Fashion Walk is coming together just as many Downtown events do: full of promise, a little disorganized and very grassroots.

The event, which makes its first go on Thursday, August 20, brings the Historic Core's growing number of fashion-oriented retail together with pop-up stores placed into empty spaces. — Continued Inside...