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Sun Apr 15, 2012 2:41 am
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Sun Apr 15, 2012 1:23 pm
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| Fly used to be a dope little store. |
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Sun Apr 15, 2012 1:32 pm
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| It was brilliant. 2 floors - basement always carrying the dopest stuff. Can't say I was there in '96 but certainly was in '98-99. Returned in mid-2000's after uni and walked there to discover it'd shut up and gone. Gutted. |
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Sun Apr 15, 2012 2:37 pm
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| No kidding. Spent 94-2002 as an undergrad and then PhD student just off the King's Road, then moved out to the US - was gutted to find out that Fly and American Classics were no more. |
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Sun Apr 15, 2012 8:58 pm
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| which used to have better stock back then? Hit & Run or Fly? |
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Mon Apr 16, 2012 12:34 am
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| Don't know if I remember Hit and Run. Fly used to stock Project Dragon, lots of Stussy, even Paul Smith Red Ear iirc. |
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Mon Apr 16, 2012 5:08 am
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Fly was a small legend back then, I first "read" about it in Mens Non No in about 1996. If I can dig that issue out when i get my stuff out of storage it probably has a picture and/or interview with Simon Porter from memory.
When did Hit & Run start? |
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Mon Apr 16, 2012 5:31 pm
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Oh hang on, Hideout used to be Hit and Run, didn't it? 1998, iirc. Like I say, I used to go to Fly a lot because it was round the corner from my lab, didn't venture into SoHo as much to shop.
Hit and Run stocked more Japanese labels, stuff like BAPE and the like. Fly tended to have more US product - a better selection of Stussy than the actual Stussy store IME, stuff like Project Dragon, Silas, good sneaker selections, and little odds and sods like those belts with old car or airplane buckles that were briefly cool.
Fly was definitely more skate-oriented than Hit and Run. |
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Mon Apr 16, 2012 9:23 pm
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yeah okay cool. Yeah hit & run was hideout later, I thought Fly had had jp stuff too.
Didn't Fly used to have Supreme? or not until later on? That would fit into the US thing.
Sydney had a store called Central Station records back then that had a lot of the same kind of stuff, PD, SSUR, SNAFU, there was a store 78 worked at I never found that had Supreme too. I think what Australia lacked was a hit & run type operation at the time, had to go to Japan for that shit. we did have a japanese book store with all the popular pieces in Japan laid out in PX megastore ads in Street Jack mag though! |
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Tue Apr 17, 2012 1:03 am
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| I think Fly might have stocked Supreme but tbh that brand was never on my radar back then. |
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