The Vintage T-Shirts Expedition

Yesterday along with millions of other Americans, Destee-Nation took part in Take your Daughters (& Sons) to Work Day. Jamie, our silkscreen master brought his daughter Jessica, and Chris, our marketing guru and Seattle rep, was accompanied by his youngest daughter Rachael.

Having helped her dad from the wee age of two, Jessica is no stranger to a print shop. She’s a master folder and knows her way around the shop better than many people 3 times her age. It was Rachael’s first time at Destee-Nation HQ, and she made the most of it. She met with several of our member business owners, helped send emails and actually got to print her own shirt. And, it was thanks to Rachael that we took part in this nationwide event in the first place. She found information about it online and even wrote up a little reminder card for dad.

Maybe next year we’ll get lucky and be visited by all our Destee-Nation kiddos, including Peter’s baby girl on the way.

We’re sending out the t-shirt scouts again, and this time they’re off to Arizona. Matt and Co. are currently en route to Flagstaff, and I’ve been compiling a list of cool places for them to visit. Naturally, we always welcome suggestions. So, if you know of any cool locally-owned places in Flagstaff, or anywhere in The Grand Canyon State for that matter, please leave us a comment and fill us in…

The guys will be checking out out this handful of locally-loved establishments in the next day or two:

• Beaver St. Brewery - award-winning beer, popular spot, great food and a cool t-shirt already for sale.
• Macy’s European Coffeehouse - great logo and a wildly popular Ultimate Cup T-Shirt!
• Charley’s Pub - in the ground floor of The Weatherford Hotel, live local music and great snacks.
• Monte Vista Cocktail Lounge - renowned local spot said to draw folks from all walks, live music and pool.
• Kathy’s Café - super-poular quality breakfast spot, and everyone raves about their cinnamon rolls and coffee.

Let us know if there are other spots we need to check out!

It’s time again for another live broadcast of Audioasis live from our own Desteenation member, High Dive—this month to benefit The World Affairs Council. On-air performances will include The Cops and Coho, followed by later performances by Shake Some Action and Whore Moans.

Our man Erin will be on the scene with a fresh load of Audioasis Live from High Dive event t-shirts.

Buy Tickets to the show from Brown Paper Tickets.

Chris is on a new member roll in Seattle lately! Last week, he met with the folks at Free Range Cycle, a very cool bike shop in Fremont with an even cooler t-shirt, and then he zipped over and signed up Blue Moon Burgers, a sweet little burger joint with happening spots in both Fremont and South Lake Union.

Then, after already visiting the brewery a few weeks ago (during which he sampled some of their award-winning brew—is there a theme developing with Chris?) and meeting up at Hop Scotch, Shawn and Alicia of Lazy Boy Brewing fame stopped by our headquarters, toured our warehouse and even visited the Fremont store. No word as to whether there was any beer consumed.

We’ll be busy getting all of these new Seattle and Hawaiian t-shirts up on the website in the coming weeks.