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Best Retro and Vintage Subscription Boxes

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A curiously curated vintgage subscription box.

If you love antique shops, vintage items, estate sales, and retro treasures, then a vintage subscription box is a must have for you. There are a few vintage or retro subscription boxes on the market, but only one delivers a custom build subscription box experience that is made just for you! VTGBOX!

Here is a recent press release about the launch of the new retro subscription box service that is buzzing on social media sites like instagram (#vtgbox or @vtgbox).

A new and unique vintage, retro, and antique item subscription box has recently been launched by vtgbox.com. The subscription box business is a growing industry that has been gaining in popularity over the past few years. Everything from razors, meals, make-up, and specialty products can be purchased as a monthly subscription. The creator of vtgbox, J.W. Holcomb has been in the vintage, estate, and antique liquidation and brokering business for over 15 years. The idea of creating a vintage treasure and antique item subscription box came to the creator about a year ago. The idea to offer a custom built monthly vintage subscription box was the solution to selling and sharing the thousands of vintage smalls that J.W. Holcomb aggregates monthly during is never ending hunt for vintage and antique treasures.

There are plenty of subscription boxes that deliver awesome products that advertise online and only a handful that deal in Vintage Items and specifically unique, eclectic, and sometimes the Odd, estate finds. One of the key features of the vtgbox vintage subscription box is the ability to build a box for subscribers based off of their interests. The subscription process asks one key question “What do you collect or what are you in to?”. This helps the vtgbox team select build and pack up a box full of fun for you every month. The only other question that is asked is “Man/Women/Both or Who Cares!”, this question is to better customize boxes based on whether the box is for a man, women, both a man and women or other.

For more information on the vtgbox subscription box visit them online at http://www.vtgbox.com

 

The vtgbox concept is not a new one but the broad range of potential products does make it unique do to the fact you can receive anything from fandom, geek, comics, oddities, coins, military items, WW2, Old Tools, vintage toys, jewelry, old paper, photos, vintage postcards, trinkets, treasures, accessories,  just about anything vintage! You choose what type or theme of items you like.

 

The vtgbox is a monthly auto-renewing subscription box that is delivered to subscribers on or around the 4th of each month. The base price is $39.95 per box and there are discounts for prepaying for multiple months in advance. There is also an option to give the box as a gift.

Currently the entire ordering process is managed with the cratejoy subscription box platform which is an online based service for sellers of subscription based products. Vtgbox is based out of Virginia and ships to the USA only at this time but plans on adding Canada, UK, and Japan soon.

 

For more information on the vtgbox subscription box visit them online at http://www.vtgbox.com

Vintage Henry Street Parade Roanoke VA Photos

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Historical Photos Of Henry Street In Roanoke VA (Parade)

Here is a set of some of the photos J.w. Holcomb has recently found (rescued) from a dilapidated home in NW Roanoke VA. These pictures show a rare view from above the Henry Street Parade in Roanoke VA.

Henry Street Historic District is a national historic district located at Roanoke, Virginia. It encompasses four contributing buildings constructed between 1917 and 1951. They were developed as the central business and entertainment district for the African-American neighborhood of Gainsboro in Northwest Roanoke. They are the Hotel Dumas (1917), The Strand Theatre (1923), Dr. Lylburn Downing office (c. 1945), and a commercial building (1951). It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.The buildings are also included in the Gainsboro Historic District. (Wikipedia)

 Here is a snippet from TheRoanoker (TheRoanoker.com) magazine talking about Henry Street. 

At its heart was Henry Street, known as “The Yard;” home to the Morocco (later called The Ebony Club), the 308, and the Dumas Hotel—all entertainment hot spots for folks living on “the other side of the tracks.”

From “Henry Street,” a 1980s Mill Mountain musical production:

“Henry Street…buzzed like a busy hive of bees; it blazed like a billion hearts on fire; it rocked as though eternity waited just around the corner. To Henry Street came plain folks, fancy folks, and all those in-between folks, in every conceivable shade of ebony, tan and ivory. Henry Street was their meeting ground, their courting ground, their stomping ground, their Harlem, their Beale Street, their Catfish Row…On Henry Street there was no shortage of soul food, soul talk or soul folks.”