Good music, colourful clothes and a funky vibe — that’s what the post-war years were all about, and that’s the feeling you get when you walk into RetroMod in Cloverdale. RetroMod, a consignment store on 176th Street in historic downtown Cloverdale, features furniture, housewares, clothes, records and bric-a-brac from what co-owner Judi Clint calls the “fun era” — the 1940s to the 1970s.
“For me growing up in the '60s and '70s, it was fun — I have great memories of that era and so do my family and friends,” Judi says. Judi and her business partner, Kathi Nicholson, have been collecting bric-a-brac from this era for years. Finally they had so much, it was time to part with some of it, hence, the inspiration to open the mid-20th-century-style consignment store. The AMC television show Mad Men has brought back the 1960s in a big way, Judi explains, and people are looking for items from that era, like drinking glasses, tea trays, ice buckets and teak furniture.
