Hey everybody, thanks for joining us today. My name is Hilary Sullivan, I'm a
board member with Roslindale Village Main Street and we are here today to
talk with Cheryl from Threads on Birch Street.
So we're here today with Cheryl from Threads right here on Birch Street. And let's start by having you tell us
about what your business does and what customers could come in here for. We do,
we sew. We do dress making and alterations and sew just about anything.
People will come in with their ideas, pictures, or drawings even and we recreate them.
What are some of the special events that you help people get ready for?
Oh, everything weddings, proms, Quinceañeras, big puffy dresses, God just about
anything. Like I said, anything people come in to to have done, we can do it.
How can Roslindale residents support your business. They do! Word-of-mouth,
that's how its run the whole time I've been here and it continues that way.
Definitely that's how I heard about it the first time. Do you have social media
that you'd like to have people follow, anything like that? I really don't,
I'm telling you, word of mouth. Now are you a Roslindale resident? I am not, I did grow
up in Jamaica Plain, so I'm close by.
Awesome, what do you think makes Roslindale such a special
and unique community? Well the time that I've been here, everybody's just nice,
everybody helps each other, they really do. And the businesses do as well, I mean
I love my spot just because of the flowers and little park right in front
of us. So why have you kept your business in Roslindale for all of these years?
Again, nice area, people are great, I have a big clientele of repeat customers
always and there's no reason to leave. Oh great, and I don't want you to leave!
We're here today with Guy and Silvana Ragusa from Sebastian's Hair Salon.
So let's get started by having you tell us what your shop does. Well primarily our
shop is a barber shop/salon. We do a lot of haircutting for men and women, we
do some coloring as well and hair styling and that's what we've been doing
for a very long time. So tell us about the array of services that you provide
We're mainly a barbershop but we do have some cosmetology services as well
because we have a hairdresser on staff. We do coloring, cutting and styling
and your basic men's hairstyles, shaves, beard shaves and various men's
haircuts of all different shapes and sizes. And being in
the Square for such a long time, I imagine that you have a lot of customers
who have been coming here for a while? Yes many generations, I mean still
customers that my dad had when he was working here, he stopped working here in
2002, 2001 or 2002, but still some of those customers are still around and
still coming back. So do you have clients of all ages come
in here? Oh yeah, yep little kids, infants, first haircuts are our
specialty. Yeah, Guy's the king of little kids hair, I mean they all are in
here, but I think Guy has like a special touch. Awesome. And do you
sometimes see a range of you know cutting hair of a grandparent, a parent...
Multigenerational? Yeah, and a child? So when my dad was here back in the day, he had like
a little red car and it was on a pole so he would cut the kid's hair in it and
then you know we put it on display in the window.
And I had one customer come in and say 'I used to get my hair cut in there' and he was
older and it was just really neat, you know. And then we'd have customers
come in with their kids, you know and they will put their kid in the chair and
they take a picture, so it's it's nice. A family affair. Yeah, yeah, and
I mean our customers that come in, they come in either to say hi, read the
paper and of course they'll get their haircut
but it's just nice how we interact with our customers, and they're
just really easygoing and no fuss. Awesome, so let's talk about Roslindale,
so your dad took over the business in 1984, so over the past 30 years, what have you seen
change over that time? Changes in just the storefronts, and I mean
businesses come and go. It's nice to still see some of the long term
businesses in the square stick around. And there's there's such a strong
business community here, are you friendly, do you know a lot of the other
business owners, do you work together in any way? I mean just from seeing being in
the Square every day and walking around the Square and seeing all the different
employees and owners on a almost daily basis, so yeah I mean it's
pretty tight-knit.
So we are here today with Jakaya and Charnae from V2III boutique and excited
to be talking with you. So let's start off by having you tell us what your
business does and what customers visiting could expect from you? So we're
a fashion and art boutique. We sell a lot of like local and independent designers
clothing and art. We also print garments, so we print t-shirts and sweatpants, etc.
You can find anything from t-shirts, hats, sneakers, artwork everything's for sale
here and the majority of things for sale like I was saying are from local
artists from Boston and surrounding areas.
So when customers come in to the business, what is something that you
think surprises them, what do people not know about what you're doing in here?
I'd say a few thing, that the arts for sale. They always admire the art, like that's
pretty cool and then when they find out that it's for sale, they're always blown
away. And that a lot of our clothes are made from local designers as well. And
how can residents support your business? I'm sure shopping, coming in for the
first time coming back, but what are other things that residents can do?
I think just coming by, you know showing support on our social media, which they
normally do. We love that we have a lot of events here, so just suupporting those events.
Events are normally free to the community. So yeah I guess just kind of
showing your face, like Charne said. We like interacting with the people, so sometimes
just stopping in and you know kind of getting familiar with the people of
Roslindale, I think that's better than a sale any day for us. Absolutely. Any other
services that you provide that you want to share? Yeah so we actually provide
printing services here. We do screen printing or vinyl printing and you can
come in, we'll put your logo on a shirt. We actually are in the process of
offering it to a lot of up-and-coming new clothing brands or designers, so if
you're new up-and-coming brand, you're looking to get your product started or
you know some brand work, you can stop in the store and we'll help you out with
that. Awesome. So you mentioned that you hold events, what kind of events
do you hold? We do a lot of art events and pop up shops. So with us
hosting so many designers, we get inquiries all the time but it's hard to
take in everyone. So for the ones that we may not be able to host or we don't know
about, we offer a pop-up shop every month where they can kind of come in, we take
everything out of the store, and they take over the store for the day. We use
it as an opportunity to scout new talent, new merch and just meet new people and
hopefully find more products to put into the store as well. Very cool.
Any chance you are hosting art for Roslindale Open Studios. Yes, we do want
to be a part of that this year. Last year, we just missed it but I heard great
things about the event and we're looking forward to it this year.
Thanks for joining us everybody! Hope you enjoyed our video series. If you'd like
to see more of our videos about local Roslindale businesses, you can go ahead
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