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Originally published in the Mountain Times- November, 18, 2020<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

By Brooke Geery<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you grew up in Rutland in the 90s, you likely have a memory of the Sound Barrier and its brightly colored banner on Center Street. Whether you were after music, clothing or skate and snowboard supplies, the store provided anything and everything an alt-teen could desire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Owner Jeff Sanborn helped rural kids keep up with the trends and always had a line on that obscure CD or T-shirt. But in 2003, burnt out on the retail scene, he closed his doors to the public and moved his business online.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt\u2019s funny \u2018cuz when I closed people were like, \u2018must be nice to be retiring early,\u2019\u201d he laughed. \u201cUmmm, not quite.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sanborn continued \u201cgrinding it down,\u201d slinging goods on Ebay, Craigslist and more recently Facebook Marketplace. He keeps an office behind the original store location downtown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI still come in my office everyday attemptin\u2019 to make somethin\u2019 happen!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Typically, he comes out of hiding each summer to set up a booth for the annual sidewalk sales in Rutland, but since those were cancelled, he decided to set up a pop-up shop on Wales St. for the holidays instead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOur annual 35 year tradition of sidewalk sales obviously couldn\u2019t happen this summer. I was bummed on many levels, for sure. I\u2019ve gotten used to seein\u2019 so many old friends and customers that look forward to hookin\u2019  up on some gear and catchin\u2019 up. It\u2019s crazy to see old friends that I watched grow up in the shop roll down with kids of their own now,\u201d Sanborn said. \u201cSo, I decided to do a pop-upper to blow out all sortsa gear.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sanborn fondly remembers December as the best time to run a shop, anyway.  \u201cThe holidays were the best times in the shop, \u2018cuz the vibe was different in December! It\u2019s only five weeks, so hopefully I won\u2019t have flashbacks of why I bailed out on retail back in the day!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The shop will basically be a sidewalk sale-style blow out, but indoors, of course.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cEverything must go!\u201d Sanborn said. \u201cNo reasonable, semi-intelligent offers will be refused. The more ya buy, the cheaper stuff gets. We will have shopping carts that we\u2019ve rounded up from all four corners of the city for people to load their gear out and to their awaiting vehicles.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Things will get rolling on Black Friday with evening hours beginning at 3 p.m. and going until people stop coming. He\u2019ll close up for good around New Years. Masks and social distancing will be required.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After years of internet sales, Sanborn is looking forward to some real human interaction. \u201cAs burnt out as I was on retail when I closed up shop 17 years ago, I can honestly say that I\u2019m excited to hopefully relive some of  the good times and memories over the holidays. Then I\u2019ll vaporize right back to the comfy confines of my panic room. Roll your pennies and nickels. Bring back your empties, check the seat cushions then be there!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Archives By Brooke Geery If you grew up in Rutland in the 90s, you likely have a memory of the Sound Barrier and its brightly colored banner on Center Street. Whether you were after music, clothing or skate and snowboard supplies, the store provided anything and everything an alt-teen could desire. Owner Jeff Sanborn helped rural kids keep up with the trends and always had a line on that obscure CD or T-shirt. But in 2003, burnt out on the retail scene, he closed his doors to the public and moved his business online. \u201cIt\u2019s funny \u2018cuz when I closed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brookegeery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91910"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brookegeery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brookegeery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brookegeery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brookegeery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=91910"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brookegeery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91911,"href":"https:\/\/brookegeery.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91910\/revisions\/91911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brookegeery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=91910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brookegeery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=91910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brookegeery.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=91910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}