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About Me

the funky hippy is located just outside of Downtown Akron at 716 Grant St. (one block north of I-77 at the Grant St. exit...EZ, babee!). Open Monday-Friday 11-5 (although Rich usually keeps it open 'til 6) and Saturday 11-4. (330.434.9092) We're happy to open by appointment or if we're closed but home we're happy to open then too.
If you're coming from some distance, please call and make sure we haven't had to close the door for an hour or two (or even occasionally for the day or week... I'll be sure to post it here in a blog if it's for a day or more.).
We've got a great collection of late 70s to early 90s (still new) Women's Indian peasant/hippie clothing
Vintage 60s-80s clothing for men (particularly shirts) and women (rockin' dresses, shirts, skirts) It's all about how you rock it!
Vintage ashtrays, housewares, 100 percent natural incense, patchouli, lavender and tea tree essential oils
...and any other fun things that tickle our collecting fancy.

My Interests

music, hunting for vintage, good coffee, cool hangs, stimulating conversation, self-discovery, laughing, hangin' with g-boy, simplicity, writing, playing out of state, collecting, dispersing, checking out big piles of books, music and movies from the library, reading Osho, going to bed late, sleeping in...

I'd like to meet:

Anyone who lives or is trying to live outside of the box.

Music:

Trip-hop! Massive Attack, Urban Species, Boards of Canada, Groove Armada...Imogen Heap...Miles Davis...

Movies:

The Princess Bride
Matrix (the first)
The Goonies

Books:

right now...anything by Osho.

Heroes:

Racer X

My Blog

wOw! swEEt long-sleeved polyester...goTTa love iT!

Just out...Women's long-sleeved polyester blouses (unless marked) are $9 - lots of florals, funky patterns and colors. Guys' vary from $8-$15 (with a couple rare and ultra-cool exceptions which edge u...
Posted by the funky hippy viNtaGe! on Fri, 14 Sep 2007 05:13:00 PST

viNtage formals, formals and more formals

So if you're looking for one, be sure to make us one of your stops. We've got LOTS of 'em! And, of course, they're all very cool and nearly one-of-a-kind (it's always possible that there's one just li...
Posted by the funky hippy viNtaGe! on Wed, 12 Sep 2007 10:26:00 PST

Pulling treasures out of the closet

in addition to the ones we've been finding on our continuous hunt for cool vintage stuff. The shop (in my opinion) has never looked better. Our collection of vintage guys' shirts is surely one of the ...
Posted by the funky hippy viNtaGe! on Tue, 04 Sep 2007 10:38:00 PST

With summer coming to an end...

the s-c-h-o-o-l wardrobe may require some new additions. We're rockin' some. ...
Posted by the funky hippy viNtaGe! on Wed, 15 Aug 2007 12:14:00 PST

A fun selection of 80s floral skirts

are up for auction. We recently discovered a small treasure trove of 80s skirts from a long-closed up-scale shop in one of the burbs of cleveland. There's not enough room to put them all out at once s...
Posted by the funky hippy viNtaGe! on Thu, 09 Aug 2007 01:33:00 PST

A night under the stars

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Posted by the funky hippy viNtaGe! on Thu, 09 Aug 2007 12:48:00 PST

OK...where have I been?!

Life is very relaxed and stress free. We're living VERY simply, yet VERY richly (that may one day mean in a monetary sense but, at this point, that's not how I mean it). I'm like a kid on permanent va...
Posted by the funky hippy viNtaGe! on Fri, 03 Aug 2007 12:03:00 PST

Shop will be closed Thursday 7/12 at 1:00 through Sunday 7/22

But we'll be open Monday 7/23 at 11:00 with some fun new treasures! If you haven't noticed, Rich has been keeping the shop open until 6 during the week. Also, don't forget that we're always happy to o...
Posted by the funky hippy viNtaGe! on Tue, 10 Jul 2007 10:46:00 PST

Sign the Live Earth Pledge

If the internet offers nothing better than the potential to join all of our voices together in solidarity for worthy change, this is one of those.: )
Posted by the funky hippy viNtaGe! on Tue, 10 Jul 2007 10:39:00 PST

Live Earth! 7/7/07

Live Earth - the worldwide music event to raise awareness of global warming - is going on today. May it be an auspicious day towards the turn-around in the environmental destruction - particularly tha...
Posted by the funky hippy viNtaGe! on Sat, 07 Jul 2007 11:30:00 PST