On a recent Tuesday afternoon, Overdue Vintage is bustling.
Owner Jeremy Fairchild stands behind the register, finishing a transaction. A woman and her father leave, purchases in hand, as a young couple comes in and heads to a rack of 2000s fashion. Other customers trickle in, stopping here and there to examine a tray of jewelry, some old books or a shelf full of cowboy boots. They disappear into the back half of the store empty-handed and emerge with a record or a purse or a pair of shoes.
Up front, vendor Matty Staats arrives with his hands full of new things for his section of the store that he operates under the name Origins of Cool. He sets a stack of records on the counter and shows me a white-and-black vintage bowling shirt that reads “Glen” on the chest. These can be pretty valuable, he tells me. By the time I leave, it’s hanging from the ceiling to get more eyes on it…