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Antiques: Fourth Street Vintage
Vintage
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and collected artifacts from the era for many years. Laura ran a graphic design business with her mother in Prescott before she began working with her husband. Though she entered the picture later than he did, she has since become an old hat at the job, cultivating a keen eye for what she calls “the good old stuff.”
“When you look at something vintage it’s just so beautiful, and it’s still here today which means it was made well,” she said. “You can appreciate the time and effort that was put into the stuff that was made back then. Something as simple as a milk bottle. Now we consume tons of plastic bottles, back then it would be brought to your front door in a nice glass jar.”
It wasn’t easy opening the store in the midst of COVID but somehow they managed, rearranging furniture so people could social distance and saying goodbye to their two sons every morning so they could run the business while the two finished high school over Zoom.
“We just want to thank Flagstaff for being so amazing and supporting this dream,” Buehler said.
JAKE BACON, ARIZONA DAILY SUN
Gourmet gifts at Olive the Best
Olive the Best Oils & Vinegars 18 E. Birch Ave.
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CHRISTINE MAXA
Everybody’s got that person they have to buy a gift for and they have no idea what to give them. When you can get that person something they never thought of or can’t get just anywhere, it’s fun.
At least that’s what Scotty McPeak, co-owner of Olive the Best Oils & Vinegars of Flagstaff, thinks.
“Someone sends you a gift,” McPeak described why he thought Olive the Best won Flagstaff’s Best Gift Shop award, “And you’re like, ‘Wow, this balsamic is from May of ’99 – this is 22 years old. This is really cool stuff.’”
The shop not only draws not only tourists, but also loyal locals. In Olive the Best’s case, locals include the whole world.
“Thirty percent of our business is online,” explained McPeak, “We ship several thousand boxes a year. The in-store is what’s grown the online because it is tourism-based, and they go home
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