User of Sweet Memories Vintage Tees & Candy Linda Barton is located in a brand-new, 2,500-square-foot vintage toy shop that is connected to the Girard garments and candy store. Wednesday, which also happened to be the new store’s sweet opening, saw the cutting of a ribbon for it. A great starting is planned for November 24th, Black Friday.
GIRARD- According to vintage chocolate and T-shirt store owner Linda Barton, customers typically react in awe when they first step foot inside Sweet Memories Vintage Tees & Candy.
They frequently say out loud,” I remember these, I remember those,” Barton said. They are overflowing with memories of candy and sodas from their youth.
With a new toy shop that is 2, 500 square feet big and filled with vintage toys from years ago, including the standard Big Wheel, Lite-Briege, Shrinky Dinks, and all kinds of table games like Activity, Twister, Mouse Trap, as well as action figures from G. I. Joe to Star Wars to pop culture and film figures, Barton wants to recreate the same kind of experience.
Barton described how she selected the items, saying,” I wanted to have everything from parents to fresh children.”
Through a relationship with the Idora Park Experience, which has provided items from its set, including one of the large material” Kiddieland Soldiers” that once guarded the doorway to Kiddiedand at the former amusement park in Kentucky and savage the Paper Eater, to show, the space, an addition to the candy and T-shirt store on Trumbull Avenue in Girard, also nods to local history.
A registration contract for Barton to offer a line of Idora Park clothing and soda is also part of the partnership with the Canfield-based company. A portion of sales revenue will be donated to the company to aid in the preservation of artifacts in its collection.
STARTING DOWN
When Barton stated that she had decided to expand the retailer to incorporate toys in August, she went about compiling a list of the top 10 playthings from each decade beginning in the 1940s and beginning her search for the items.
She claimed to have spent around$ 150, 000 to share the Javits Center in New York City during a toy good there in September.
Barton snapped her hands and said,” After that, the shipping started coming in.”
She started renovating the area at the store that had previously been used for storage for the chocolate and T-shirt shop around the same day. She spent an additional$ 50,000 to rewrite the roof and floors, upgrade the heating and ventilation system, and set up a glass door.
Barton remarked,” Doing the research was enjoyable.” ” I do things very quickly.”
A string was cut on Wednesday to mark the opening of the new space and its smooth opening. Black Friday, November 24, is set aside for a grand entry.
Santa Claus will be present on November 25 and a rum pie tasting with Tortuga Rum Cakes, which are available in the chocolate shop, will take place. Additionally, the chocolate and T-shirt retailer may introduce its range of Goetze Candy Company, which produces Cow Tails and Caramel Creams.
INVENTORY
Barton claimed that she bought products from at least 20 different businesses. From people who want the toys they had or wanted as a child to things appropriate for children and child, the company’s products has products suitable for all ages.
A sizable vintage energy football game, the initial Tinker Toys and Lincoln Logs, Fashion Plate—one of Barton’s favorites—and Sit’n Spin are among the items. Additionally, there are railways from Lionel, an action figure roof, another wall of Pez, a variety of table games, Airsoft, Fisher Price, and items related to creativity and STEM.
She also had a female astronaut number on hand.
I’ve always seen a girl astronaut before, so that’s why I bought them, Barton said.
She also owns Lego, but in order to do so, she had to submit a business plan, allow the business to look over three years of her financial data, and undergo background checks.
She said,” I created the visual so that when people enter, they see the things they remember.”
LICENSING
At this year’s Canfield Fair, Barton claimed to have met Jim and Toni Amey, masters of the Idora Park Experience. The three came to an agreement allowing Barton to offer a range of garden T-shirts and sodas with official licenses. To help protect and restore area things, the Idora Park Experience receives a portion of the beer sales and$ 5 for each T-shirt sold.
Another new T-shirt certificates include Mentos, Goetze, Beemans candy, and Bazooka Joe.
The licenses join dozens of others, such as Popsicle, Good Humor, Isaly’s, Dots’, Junior Mint, Dum-Dums; Necco; Klondike; Peeps ); Smarties; Breyers; and more.
The National Packard Museum in Warren, as well as tees from St. Anthony, Saint Francis, and Padre Pio, are also available in the business, along with clothes licensed from the U.S. Army, Navy and Air Force.
A part of the purchase is always donated.
Wealth is donated to Akron Children’s Hospital from the food, chocolate, and sweets-related shirts. Barton claimed that so far, she has given the medical system about$ 40,000, which she attributes to saving her daughter’s life when she was a young child.
Because of her kindness, Akron Children’s has since given Boardman a chamber at its doctor. Room No. 1 is Nice Memories Vintage Tees. 247 at the workplace.
The Packard range returns to the museum, the Saints collection goes to Franciscan Friars of Youngstown, and the military line benefits a spiritual program that aids military personnel suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder.