Visit our Fremont Store this weekend and cash in on our 40% off Blowout T-Shirt Sale. The neighborhood is hosting its annual Fremont Fair, and we’re celebrating with a huge sale on everything in the store. Don’t miss your chance to save big on all of our local t-shirts, women’s t-shirts, long-sleeved t-shirts, hoodies and even kids tees.
See you at the Solstice Parade—who doesn’t love a naked bicyclist!
Countless doughnut runs and a few extra pounds later, we recently decided Top Pot Doughnuts needed to be a Destee-Nation. They’re a little bigger than most of our members—they’ve got a few shops and they distribute doughnuts to several places around town, but they’re still locally-owned and loved. Nothing wrong with success…
We’re also thrilled with their lovely treatment of our logo on the Top Pot website. Very cool site design too.
Fremont’s Oktoberfest is finally here again, and Destee-Nation is lending our support with some very cool t-shirts, only available at the event*. This year’s beer-happy line-up promises to be a full weekend of boozing and schmoozing, and whether you want to go for the gold in the 5K, bring the kiddies to watch the chainsaw pumpkin carving or just stumble around the beer garden all day, there’s bound to be something to quench your thirst for fun. USA Today called this local Seattle Festival one of the Top Ten Oktoberfests in the world. So, be there or be sorry, this weekend starting tonight from 5pm-midnight; Saturday, from 11am-midnight; and Sunday, the 23rd from 11am-6pm.
*Volunteers get a free t-shirt…
The Seattle Channel, a local television station that presents an eclectic series of shows about all things Seattle on cable TV (Channel 21 on Comcast and Millennium) and online, contacted us to do a piece on our t-shirt company. The City-a-Go-Go crew filmed a few days later and turned the whole thing around in a week. We’re thrilled with the way Nancy Guppy and her talented team put this together.
Visit The Seattle Channel for the complete City-a-Go-Go episode and much, much more.
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.
Last fall, we participated in the Fremont Oktoberfest, and, aside from being a great way to get the word out about Desteenation, we all just had a great time. So, when the folks from the Hop Scotch Tasting Festival called Peter, our Seattle mastermind, to ask if we’d like to sell some t-shirts at this weekend’s event, you can imagine his enthusiastic response. Microbrews and Scotch? It’s going to be long weekend for a some of us…
Peter is putting together a collection of very cool t-shirts to be on sale at event. So if you’re heading down to the Fremont Studios building (just down the street from our store) this Friday and Saturday, stop by and pick up a t-shirt or two (or ten) while you’re getting your buzz on.
Sarah, the owner of Phinney Ridge’s newest (and possibly swankiest) bar and lounge, browsed around our Fremont store last weekend and ended up asking how Oliver’s Twist could become a Desteenation member. We love it when business owners see what we do, understand how they could benefit and ask us if they can sign up–the concept speaks for itself!
Chris, our guy on the Seattle scene, went over to Oliver’s today, met with Sarah and her partner Daniel and made it official. Welcome Oliver’s Twist! These t-shirts will likely be orange and very stylin’.
Seattle’s member-supported radio station, KEXP, and their longest-running show, Audioasis, broadcasts live from the High Dive on the first Saturday of every month, and donates the proceeds to a different charity each month. This last Saturday, Desteenation was proud to be on the scene with these new, exclusive t-shirts for the event.
All proceeds went to support The Fremont Abbey Arts Center and featured awesome performances by the likes of Man Plus, Optimus Rhyme, Shorthand for Epic, Gabriel Teodros, Smoosh and Tim Seely.
We’ll be back at High Dive next month with more of these awesome event t-shirts—so come on down for what will undoubtedly be another great show for another great cause. Oh and by the way, you can only score these bad boys at the show…
**UPDATE** KEXPlive has a terrific photoset of the event on Flickr with shots taken by amanda allen photography. **
The Destee-Nation Shirt Co. Expedition is on a perpetual road trip seeking vintage t-shirts from locally-owned and operated businesses. With our trusty Nikons in hand, we capture images from these places to accompany the written story that is displayed with all of our t-shirts.
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