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Vintage Pink
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Category: Used, Vintage & Consignment [Edit]
Neighborhoods: Southeast Portland, Hawthorne2500 SE Hawthorne Boulevard
Portland, OR 97214
(503) 224-8100
- Hours:
Mon-Thu. 10:00 a.m. - 7:00 p.m.
Fri-Sat. 10:00 a.m. - 8:00 p.m.
Sun. 10:00 a.m. - 7:00 p.m.
- Price Range:
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$$
- Accepts Credit Cards:
- Yes
- Parking:
- Street, Private Lot
- Wheelchair Accessible:
- Yes
16 reviews for Vintage Pink
This store is awesome. Especially for good quality vintage furniture! I always find something amazing in this store. From vintage 60's playboy to beautiful dresses to owl nick-nacks that I can't live without! Everything is clean, well priced and in exceptional condition. The sellers really take time to keep their sections neat and clean. They also only buy high quality vintage items.
I swoon over this store every time I go in (or drive by)! I even modge podged my bathroom door with vintage Playboy. HOTTEST-THING-EVER. Everything I look at that door I am reminded that girls were encouraged to have good curves at one point and really, who doesn't love vintage Playboy??!
I love wandering around this vintage haven and recommend that everyone else do the same!
Like Demetri Martin, I understand the importance of chairs. You can sit on them. You can eat Cheetos and watch the Kentucky Derby on the TV while sitting on chairs. You can even fall asleep in a chair while eating Cheetos as the Kentucky Derby rages for all of two minutes on the screen, but only if you're awesome.
And right now, I am in love with a chair at Vintage Pink. It's a recliner made of black leather with easy integration capabilities into any decorative scheme (even poor, post-grad chic). It's so comfortable that the chair has already built up a following of people who lead other people into the store to sit on the chair, watch the seated person's eyes loll back into his or her skull in total bliss, and exclaim, "See! I told you!" Hot damn, I want this chair so much I'd consider trading my child for it. However, I work in social services and this transaction would get me arrested. Luckily for me, I have no children.
Less fortunately, the price that Vintage Pink is selling the recliner for is a bit steep for my liking and, as hard as I work my inner interior designer, I can't think of a way to shove another seating device into my crowded one-bedroom apartment. It'd be an irresponsible purchase, almost on the same level as Victorian peacoats in the summer and cocaine. But it seriously sends me into the third stage of grief to think about someone else taking that chair home.
So, I'm going to flat-out lie: Do not go to Vintage Pink. You will find nothing there that you will desire in the slightest. No shelves of records, no retro Playboys editions, no adorable dresses, no cowboy boots with that worldly wrinkle to them, no 1980s-era collector's item Portland Trailblazers glasses, and absolutely no furniture that will infiltrate your daydreams the way you abruptly remember what your first boyfriend smelled like even though you haven't thought about him in years. Nor is the store staffed with people who have an obvious affinity for everything old and gaudy and rare. Most pertinently, Vintage Pink does not have chairs. None. And chairs are important.
This place is a MUST go to when you are in portland.
Located in the Hawthone district, it is really hard to miss the bright pink building with retro geometric shapes on it.
My friend and i went there and saw a bunch of old vintage records, books, clothes, shoes, dining things, and accessories. The layout is easy to sort through and isnt too overwhelming.
come buy and rummage for hidden treasures
This place is pretty decent as far as vintage shops go. There were a ton of things to look at and the layout was simple and made for easy browsing. There's a pretty wide variety of items - everything from furniture to magazines to clothes - which makes for an interesting time.
People have said that prices are reasonable here, but I found the few things I was interested in to have really high prices. Maybe I just have expensive vintage taste...?
I didn't find what I was looking for here, but the prices were awesome and there were some cool things I eyeballed. The formica table up front was in great condition and selling for a steal. My husband found a kick-ass Star Tours (don't ask) glass mug from 1986 to add to his ever-growing collection...only $6. Still, a lot of the stuff I saw in here just looked like junk, which is cool, cuz one man's junk...you know. The staff seemed friendly and helpful enough, too.
The reason I'm taking off 2 stars is the incredibly irritating, shitty techno music that nearly made me feel rushed to leave before a headache ensued. Don't get me wrong, I was raving in 1994 (glitter and all) and I like all kinds of techno. Maybe I'm just a snob about the music, but damn...this was some crappy hard-house from Germany or something and it was so LOUD, I was really distracted and just wanted to get the hell out of Pink. Perhaps you guys could turn down the volume a little and play some decent house, like Rabbit in the Moon or Digweed instead? Just a suggestion. I'd stay longer and probably buy more, if you did.
I like this place. I agree that it IS a hit-or-miss, but aren't most vintage stores? The smell kind of threw me off a little (imagine old people and dirty feet) but that is also par for the course.
I love that this place is so organized. The stuff is nicely laid out, and was a feast for my eyes. Seriously, my eyes were so full by the end I had to burp them.
The prices are pretty reasonable. I don't know when this happened, but somehow other people's junk started getting really, really expensive. Not so with this place. There are still some seriously great finds for the cheapest of chicas.
Also, and I must say this, the drag queen there is great. This is something that this store offers that most others don't. How many people can say they've looked through old records and scarves with a drag queen? All those years of living in Seattle and San Francisco, and I never had that experience until I went to Vintage Pink.
This place definitely embodies the Portland mindset.
So, along with Lounge Lizard (http://www.yelp.com/bi...) a couple blocks to the west, Vintage Pink make a powerful one-two punch of cool vintage "furniture and more" shops.
If you check one out you may as well stroll down and browse the other as well, they're that close, and with the ever changing inventory at both places you never really know what you might find.
Comparing the two I'd say the prices looked a little higher at Pink, and I preferred much of the furniture/furnishings at LL - BUT Pink carried a much wider selection of non-furniture vintage merchandise - clothes, glasses and tableware, board games, magazines (of the porn and non-porn variety) - so it's probably the better bet for browsing if you're not looking for a sofa, dinette set, or barcalounger. Basically, LL is more like a retro home furnishings store, whereas Pink comes off more like time traveling flea market. Pink is also in a larger space, so while you can see most everything there is to see at LL in just a few minutes, Pink takes some serious browsing to see it all.
Vintage Pink is definitely worth a look if you're into mid-century fashion and memorabilia.
If a drag queen hadn't delivered my table I probably would have given it 3 stars... but that happened.
I found the perfect table after a day of hunting. I had worked a 12 hours shift, got off at 7am, and drank 2 cups of coffee to be able to find myself a beautiful new table. I was going to rest until Portland produced an inexpensive new piece of furniture for me this day, even if i had work at 7pm!
Luckily, I found myself napping by 3. After stores started opening around 11, so not bad! This place is yay or nay. Horrid music, it makes you giggle. My roommate totally broke something, it was embarrassing but we got over it. It doesn't make your head spin completely though everything is layed out nicely. My large table with 4 funky chairs I found was only 199! Yay! Oddly enough, it was bought from a lady a few blocks away from my house. Guess it was meant to stay in the hood!
This is the kind of store that defines "hit or miss."
But those, ladies and gents, are the stores I love the most. I love a good hunt. I love a good dig. If you can smooosh a hunt AND a dig in the same outing, you have a happy stephy. And so smiles were in full effect when we popped in here on a whim.
Section after section of really cool retro furniture and house accessories like thermoses, ash trays, vases, typewriters, along with rack after rack of vintage clothing. Some of it, as I warned you above, was shit on a stick, but the good finds, ooooh were they good!
I scored the following....
-1960's gold cocktail dress $24.00
-1960's grey cropped jacket with black lined cuffs and gorgeous rhinestone buttons $28.00
-who knows what year adorable cropped grey sweater with embroidered roses $12.00
Thank you Portland and Vintage Pink, you just made my closet very happy.
This place is great. A great selection of 50s-70s furniture, decorations from another world, and clothes from who knows where/when. The records alone are worth a trip to Vintage Pink. The people working there are nice -- accommodation but not suffocating -- and the space is big and allows for a wide selection of things.
I'm disappointed that the seller of a particular gorgeous green couch that was damaged wouldn't take my offer, but hey, whatcha gonna do? I'll be perusing the ever changing collection again soon.
Yeah, I did give it 5 stars.
First of all, the store is HUGE. You can basically have something in mind that you'd like to find, and if you look hard enough, you'll find it. And you can really look, and look and look and look. Hopefully you'll be looking for the dining room table that reminds you of your grandma's house or an original lava lamp, because when they say vintage, they mean it. Nothing in this place is newer than 1985.
We needed a couch when we got here about a month ago, and luckily stumbled upon this store; and got a gold 3-piece sectional couch (c. 1965) for $150 bucks! They also worked with us on the price.
Vintage Pink is full of interesting pieces of furniture, jewelry, clothes, decor... And most things are cute, well taken care of, and reasonably priced. You could spend hours inside looking around. I give it an A+!
A whole variety of clothes, furniture and other second hand stuff. Not all of it pink.
Did a double-take when I saw on their sidewalk the same rattan chair I had bought thru JC Penney twenty years ago. Could it have been? When I bought that chair as part of a set, I was laughed at. They told me my furniture looked like the living room from the "The Golden Girls".
So... what the FxxK is up with the smell in this place? Seriously, it smelled like a wet dog rolled in the cat box. Whatever. This place has some great stuff and its easy to get around unlike some other vintage stores in this neighborhood. I liked that it had a good mixture of clothes v furniture. If I ever moved to Portland, I could furnish a whole house from this place.
Well I remember reading poor reviews of this place at one point but perhaps that was before the ownership changed.
I did a lot of furniture shopping when I first moved to Portland and while I try as often as possible to get free furniture, sometimes you need to spend a little cash. I wanted a great couch, and I was willing to spend some dough. I went to many places, such as Lounge Lizard, Disco to Deco, Really Good Stuff, and another vintage shop on Hawthorne (the name escapes me currently) and they all had cool stuff at very high prices. I checked Vintage Pink last because it had poor reviews on Yelp, but I'm glad to see that there's a new Yelp page for a new Vintage Pink with new owners.
I went to vintage pink and found that they not only had the BEST selection of the places I went, but also the LOWEST PRICES of all of the cool vintage shops. I found a super long, stylin', orange couch with extremely comfortable cushions. Makes my bed jealous. In addition, the owners were very nice and delivered it for me. Good people, man. Good people.
True, this place is about as cheap as you can get for vintage shops here. The selection is very much hit or miss, and the quality of the "good stuff" is less than desirable.
That, and the blaring techno music: and I mean mess-up-your-biorhythm-loud, horrible techno music, makes me feel like these guys don't quite meet the bar for Portland.
This is my favorite vintage store in Portland. Vintage Pink has 12 vendors who all focus on different kinds of vintage goods ... it is a veritable museum! I'd recommend planning an hour for this store... you'll need it.
