Flashback in downtown Warren

New 'pop-up' store opens for holidays

By Ted Hayes
Posted 11/30/16

About the only thing missing from the window at the Flashback Emporium at 450 Main St. is an official Red Ryder carbine action 200-shot range model air rifle.

But give it time.

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Flashback in downtown Warren

New 'pop-up' store opens for holidays

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About the only thing missing from the window at the Flashback Emporium at 450 Main St. is an official Red Ryder carbine action 200-shot range model air rifle.

But give it time.

The ‘pop-up’ vintage toy, music, clothing and everything else store would have looked right at home in the opening scene of “A Christmas Story,” with all sorts of mechanized electronic joy, as Ralphie described it, filling the large front window display. Inside, there’s more where that came of.

Flashback Emporium opened last Saturday and will stay open every day through Christmas, 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. It is a collaboration between David Podsnap of Galactic Theatre and Podsnappery fame, and two friends and vintage lovers. Bleu Grijalva, who has worked with Hope & Main and formerly farmed town fields through his New Urban Farmers, is selling vintage toys, records, oddities and ephemera. Myke Dubovsky, an old friend of Podsnap’s who recently moved to Warren from Connecticut, has a large assortment of vintage bicycles and also specializes in records, music-related items and more. And Podsnap moved much of his stock over to the new storefront from his Podsnappery/Galactic Theatre a few doors down.

“I was talking with (building owner David Sequino,” Podsnap said Monday. “He was thinking about opening a pop-up and I said, ‘How about vintage?’” Two days after talking to him and getting an OK, the three partners started moving in their stock. They’ve been busy ever since.

Though there is plenty of stock among the three of them, Flashback plans more. There will be a revolving string of guest merchants, and the proprietors are also taking quality consigned items for sale. Contact them at flashbackwarren@gmail.com.

Podsnap would love to see the shop continue past the holidays. His Galactic Theatre is doing well, with concerts selling out and movies drawing crowds, and he said he would like to keep a large, multi-merchant storefront open, both for variety and for the endless rotation of stock that would result.

“It’s really exciting,” he said. “It’s the perfect fit” for Warren.

In other news

While he’s busy with the Flashback Emporium, Podsnap is working to obtain a wine/beer/theater license for his Galactic Theatre from the Warren Town Council. He currently has an entertainment license, but that does not allow him to serve alcoholic beverages. With frequent concerts drawing good crowds, he believes he’s filling a niche in Warren.

“I want to bring live music to Warren,” he said. “Right now there’s really no venue (apart from Galactic). “It will be a full-blown live music venue that also shows movies.

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Next up at the Galactic: Kris Hansen, of Viking Jesus, plays with Jodie Treloar Friday, Dec. 2. 8 p.m.

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