[Photo from 1997 by EVG reader Dave Buchwald]
Last year around this time we told you about "Mod World," the documentary on the offbeat boutique that had a 12-year-run (1994-2006) at 85 First Ave. near East Fifth St.
Now, filmmaker-editor Jeff Turboff, a former East Village resident, tells us that the movie is available for free viewing at Vimeo. (Watch it here.)
You can read our Q-and-A with Turboff here.
11 comments:
So many of these funky little EV stores have disappeared, replaced by Chase Bank and Starbucks. Wasn't there a Spanish Wine Store for a while at that location, after Mod World?
You're right... Tinto Fino closed here in May 2013
I wish time could stand still. I wish I didn't have to get older.
Thanks, EVG. Yes, that's what it was 'Tinto Fino'. Wish I could have supported them better, but I'm not a wine drinker
Mod world was a fun place to buy presents (especially change purses with holograms), and sometimes they played good music, I remember being in there in the late 90's and hearing this ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35hDrzcHnIA I also remember the owner and his dog, Romeo was it?
What were Mod
world's beginning and ending dates?
I remember the owner saying he was going to LA, a year or so after the store closed.
I think the owner lives in Buffalo now, RIP Mod World, Love Saves The Day, Little Ricky's and all those other fun, quirky shops of the EV
@gee whiz -- YES!! to all of those and more! Cha Cha Tchotka, Atomic Passion, Waldorf Hysteria... and all those record stores and book stores!
'Good Records' is still around on 5th Street between 2nd & Bowery. One of the few surviving record stores.
I remember Downtown Music Gallery on that block in the early to mid 90s
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