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Friday Nights with Brian Murphy
Friday Nights with Brian Murphy
Photo by Jim Roy Every second or third Friday night for a number of years CHEZ-FM DJ Brian Murphy could be found in my store Flash Cadilac talking to me for hours. I will never understand how we became friends, as we were different as night and day. But there he was sitting on a stool next to my cash register, and we always had hours to chat about stuff. Both of us had a love of music, but no…
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How to Succeed in Business? Linda Knight Seccaspina
1983 Ottawa Citizen How to Succeed in Business? In 1997 I closed my Rideau Street store in Ottawa after almost 25 years and began another journey of my life. I just want to remind people that every hard-earned dollar you choose to spend at a local business helps strengthen our economy and builds a stronger and more resilient Canada. In 1996 I spoke to a room full of prospective business…
A Hello and Goodbye Hawaiian Short Story — Memories of Flash Cadilac In 1974 vintage clothing was finally coming into its own and I had many a customer in my store that wanted vintage and silk Hawaiian shirts. Sad to say Canada was not the mecca of procuring vintage clothing in large quantities so I was told the only place to go was New York City to a used clothing processing plant. Very few of…
OH MY GOTH!! Savannah Devilles
Yesterday was the first time I had dressed in my old gothic clothes for a long time for the opening of the Deadly Grounds Cafe in Carleton Place. After Flash Cadilac closed at 174 Rideau I opened Savanah Devilles for a few years on Rideau and it was the first of its kind for gamers, the gothic folk and those that loved the Comic Cons. They were not really around then and I went to the second…
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I Tried to be Normal once.. Memories of Flash Cadilac and Life -- Linda Knight Seccasina
I Tried to be Normal once.. Memories of Flash Cadilac and Life — Linda Knight Seccasina
Photo- 1983( 40 years)- Written in 2019 I tried to be normal once.. Worst two minutes of my life LOL Last night I watched The Devil Wears Prada for the 100th time and wondered again why character Andy Sachs put up with that awful Runway Magazine editor. When I got up this morning I realized I too had once been an “Andy Sachs” and today I thanked my lucky stars that I had these “Miranda…
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I Bought Your Grandmas's Clothes --Flash Cadilac Ottawa
I Bought Your Grandmas’s Clothes –Flash Cadilac Ottawa
The Flash Cadilac Burlap Bag, thanks to Wanda Jane who sent it all the way from California( see below) I Bought Your Grandmas’s Clothes I learned some valuable lessons during my initial employments. One of the most important things I noticed was never let your paramours be involved in your business. I watched short-duration girlfriends be allowed to become fashion buyers and awarded free living…
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Mini Memories of Retail Stores, Au Bon Marche, Liberty Stores, Orientique, and Flash Cadilac 1976
Mini Memories of Retail Stores, Au Bon Marche, Liberty Stores, Orientique, and Flash Cadilac 1976
David Ellis–Downtown Sherbrooke’s Au Bon Marche at the corners of King & Grandes-Fourches Streets in the 1960’sLiberty stores in Ottawa came to Ottawa from the Eastern Townships in Quebec. Another person I owe who I am today is the late Morty Vineberg from Au Bon Marche in Sherbrooke, Quebec. I learned the retail trade from the bottom up from him, and to this day, if there is a spot for just 50…
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Flashbacks of Little Miss Flash Cadilac --- A Hello and Goodbye Hawaiian Short Story
Flashbacks of Little Miss Flash Cadilac — A Hello and Goodbye Hawaiian Short Story
“Alison Smith-Welsh-Linda Seccaspina, I thought you ‘d like this. I bought it at a Sally Ann’s a few years ago. I loved your store, and remember buying black nail polish , glow in the dark condoms, and Betsy Johnson dresses there”. Linda says–In 1997 I began to see my clothing at vintage fairs and knew it was getting time to pack it in LOLOL A Hello and Goodbye Hawaiian Short Story In 1976…
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