User:Derekrinaldi

SHUT Mechanics Shop - Grand Opening NYC

I’ve made the trip a million times before. NJ to NYC. Park in Hoboken. In the 80’s, I’d take the PATH to 9th street then cross the street to Bruno Musso’s apt where most of the SHUT gang would have assembled on any given Saturday.

The 90’s brought Zoo York and trips to 13th and Hudson Street, above Hogs & Heffers, passing Tippy’s jazz bar and the prostitutes and drug pushers in the meat district. Then, before the end, it was Times Square baby.

Pushing time forward we arrive at 158 Orchard Street for the opening of The Shut Mechanics shop. The first retail endeavor for a company with a rich history in NYC. New York City’s first skateboard company has been pushing it’s wheels through the city streets for over twenty years and is set up to be here for another twenty.

The crowd, as you would, imagine was overflowing from the narrow storefront and the drinks flowed steadily at the after party @ 205.

SHUT NYC 1986 - Forever

Derek Rinaldi