The Story of Fleet Foot Maggie
FLEET FOOT MAGGIE·MONDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 2019·
I’ve always loved the past, ever since I was a kid. My parents listened to classical music, Dixieland Jazz and old standards. My brother favored classic rock, blues, the Beatles. I scratched up his Styx-Paradise Theater album from playing it so much. One of the reasons I loved it was because of the picture of the old movie
theater in its heyday. I never liked to look at the rundown version of the theater on the other side of the album. I gravitated towards books and movies about history or time travel. When I first saw Xanadu, I used to fantasize about being back in the 40’s and falling in love with Gene Kelly. When I was a teenager, I had old movie posters all over my walls. I kept albums filled with pictures of movie stars from the 30’s, 40’s and 50’s. Collecting vintage is my way of traveling back in time. When I pick up an antique or vintage item, I can almost feel it vibrate with the energy of the past. I like to imagine where it has been, who owned it, who wore it, who used it, who stitched it. Were they in love with someone? What did they worry about? Did they have children? I am irresistibly drawn to antique stores. I can poke around in them for hours. Sadly, I only have one house to store my vintage finds. My solution is to start passing my finds on to you. I hope you enjoy them like I do. My store is named Fleet Foot Maggie, after my daughter, because she is the reason for everything. Oh, and after Bob Dylan’s ‘Subterranean Homesick Blues’, because.....Dylan.
