Action Sundries
Heather Hahn, Kim Masters, and John Milan |
Around 1985, Barry Freeze ran Action Sundries, a shop on Kapahulu Avenue. Barry's Grandmother and Mom had run a sundries shop by Ala Moana for years. I remember going there and seeing that Barry had set up a little room in the back where he would listen to punk tapes on his breaks. When Barry finished highschool, his family helped him set up his own shop. It lasted less than a year, but it was a fun place to go when I was supposed to be looking for a job. Francis Sippin worked there sometimes, but Barry couldn't really afford to pay him all the time.
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Laurie Saike |
Francis Sippin, Dave Carr, Kim, and John |
Mike Mackelhaney smokes a clove in a box |
That New Order Fact 50 shirt was silk screened by Peter Fitzgerald |
At one point, I brought in a weird little fortune dispensing machine. You would put a penny in and ask a question, and a cryptic response would come out. The thing must have been from the 1950s. Once we ran through the actual fortunes, I hand wrote a bunch of vicious fortunes that ridiculed the questioner or their relatives, or foretold horrible accidents or death would befall the person. We had a lot of laughs with that one.
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John Milan observes as Seth takes part in a stop motion study |
John Kroll and Rich Tarantino (Carlos hiding behind the counter) |
Whirling Dervishes, were on their way, and Devil Dog, MUG, Hat Makes the Man, Scarred For Life, and lots of others were still going. 1985 was a definite high point for our music scene. A lot of people were busy doing things they really wanted to do. Action Sundries was somewhere to go before the night time festivities began |