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Treasure City News

-------The Eclectro Garage Sale Show------
Sun, Aug 2
8pm-midnight
Salvage Vanguard Theater 2803 Manor Rd, Austin

The Eclectro Garage Sale is a collaboration between experimental music nonprofit Church of the Friendly Ghost and radical thrift store Treasure City.
Creative electronic sound artists will perform on the Salvage Vanguard's stage while a garage sale of Treasure City's funnest stuff happens in the gallery.
Each of the acts use recycled and often unwanted materials in their music:
Jano (thing) Selector mixes old audiotapes into poetic ambient soundscapes.
The Furby Youth Choir turns furry electronic toys into circuit bent crooners.
Eric Archer creates sound from light as it passes through old cameras.
Spaceinvader Orchestra wires together old record players and mixes broken records.

-------Back to School Sale-----
For the first week in August, we’ve brought out lots of extra back to school items: Binders and school supplies all under $2, Backpacks and school bags all under $5, kid’s clothes$1-2…while they last!

-------Building News--------
We’re still working on buying a building (read more about that at http://www.treasurecitythrift.org/move), but have extended our lease at our current location through January, so we’ll be there that long at least…if you know of a great building we should look at, or want to throw a fundraiser for our building fund, please contact cory@treasurecitythrift.org.

--------Volunteer Opportunities---------
Can you install ducts to make our air conditioner work better? Can you make us a great new promo poster/flyer? Love to organize and clean thrift stores? Want to work in the store on a regular shift or once in a while? Need a little extra data entry in your life? Want to help run the Really Really Free Market? Interested in learning more about consensus process and alternative economic models? Talk to any of us in the store or email cory@treasurecitythrift.org. We are run by volunteers (maybe including you?) and welcome your involvement

a conversation overheard in the store:
Customer Joe Shmoe: Hello Lucy P, what’s that you’re reading?

Lucy P: Popular mechanics -I found it in our magazine section –it’s a special issue on this new technology: computers so small you can hold them in your hands!
CJS:Uh, Lucy? Have you noticed that issue is from 1983? I think it might be a little out of date.
LP: Hmmm., I was kinda confused about how we could have some of these things in our display case here at the thrift store if they had just been invented…
CJS: Yeah, you don’t get out much do you? You’ve got an amazing outfit on today though, I noticed: The black boots, red skirt with tulle underlining...
and polka dot belt, red leather purse with a swallow appliqué, and that black t shirt…I don’t get it though “I am Albert Woodfox”? I thought your name was Lucy. Who’s Albert?
LP: Albert is one of the Angola 3, you can read about the case at http://www.a3grassroots.org/.
CJS: Whoa, very interesting. I can’t believe I can the extent of the one stop shopping: cheap awesome stuff plus information about all kinds of local and global struggles for social justice. Treasure City sure is an amazing place.
LP: Yup, you’re right that I don’t get out much, but really, why would I need to go anywhere else?