Shedhead Vintage during the store’s next to last day open in Red Bank. (Photo by Brian Donohue. Click to enlarge)
By Brian Donohue
A vintage/consignment store finds a dearth of funky, eclectic customers in Red Bank and moves to Asbury Park to find them. Also, a rug shop owner whose family has run the biz for 79 years puts a “for sale” sign up in the window. All that and more in the latest edition of redbankgreen‘s Retail Churn.
Shedhead owners Hallie Endresen (left) and Hailey Grillo inside the store after announcing the move to Asbury Park. (Photo by Brian Donohue. Click to enlarge.)
Shedhead Vintage, the consignment/thrift shop that opened two years ago at 93 Broad Street is moving to Asbury Park. The shop’s last day open in Red Bank was Sept 24.
Hallie Endresen and Hailey Grillo launched the business online in 2017, when they were juniors at Matawan Regional High School with a shared passion for sustainability. After two years in Red Bank, they realized it might not be a good fit.
“We just realized our clientele, that dresses funky and eclectic is really just not walking around here,” Grillo said. “We’re moving down to Asbury. We just think that will be a better fit for us there.”
Grillo and co-owner Hallie Endresen also saw other “alternative” stores leaving Red Bank recently, like Feet First skate shop, Witch Baby soap and Greene Street consignment. The latter departure, she said, seemed to be the writing on the wall.
“The thrifter is not really in Red Bank any more so it’s sad,” Grillo said.
The space at 93 Broad Street was previously occupied by Mike Quon‘s pop-up Quon Art Gallery 93, and before that, Midtown Authentic.
In other churn news:
A sign in the window of Ebner’s Rugs (billed as Monmouth County’s Oldest rug store) at 29 East Front Street reads “Many Rugs Below Cost.’ Another says “building for sale.”
Talk to 86-year-old owner Robert H. Ebner Sr. and it’s not quite clear if the business is officially rolling up the carpets for good.
“I’m in limbo,” he told redbankgreen. “The business has changed. I’m not sure what I’m going to do.”
At age 86, he says, “I think I’m old enough to retire.” But he’s not saying he’s actually retiring.
Ebner owns several other buildings along West Front Street and was thinking of taking the money from the sale and refurbishing an apartment in one of those to move into so he doesn’t have to do yard work any more.
“I think I’ve almost talked my wife into doing the apartment so we can look out at the river like the rich people do,” he said.
The store, which has been family run since 1945, remains open by appointment only. The selection of rugs offered below costs may be worth an appointment, but the conversation with Robert Ebner is even more highly recommended.
In other churn news, Industry Salon has moved from its upstairs home at 20 Broad Street to the storefront at 116 Broad Street, (pictured below) which had housed a longtime salon that moved out in March. The space was occupied for twelve years by oneblowdry salon. When oneblowdry moved out, the owner moved quickly to grab the space, which was bustling when redbankgreen stopped by Friday.
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