“Cover your ears,” Audrie San Miguel says playfully to LuCretia Sisk. Her once-boss, now-predecessor, steward of Room Service Vintage, isn’t one for sentimentality, but San Miguel has something she wants to say: “She taught me everything I know.”
“Well,” Sisk butts in, ears evidently uncovered. “She learned it by herself, though. It’s not like I was holding her hand.”
After 26 years selling her own finds in the store and managing the shop’s vendors and employees, Sisk is hardly ready to stop hunting down vintage wares, but she’s tired of the day-to-day people-wrangling. San Miguel was the first actual employee of Room Service, hired by Sisk for a once-a-week position manning the cash register for the shop’s handful of vendors. That role grew to include her own 80-foot booth in the North Loop staple, and eventually led to San Miguel opening her own shop on South Congress, Prototype Vintage…