Adam Nguyen's Blog: Shopping the fun and fabulous Retro Vegas vintage store

I went. I spoke. I toured. And then: I shopped. On the Monday after the Nevada Preservation Foundation’s Vintage Vegas Home & History Tour, did I want to go visit the Neon Museum, Executive Director Heidi Swank asked? Well maybe next time … because I needed to hit up Retro Vegas, arguably the premier vintage shop in Las Vegas. And It Did Not Disappoint!

The vintage pink GE steel kitchen:

First off, Retro Vegas is kinda famous for their vintage pink GE kitchen assembled in the back corner of the store. It is not for sale. They rent out the space for photo shoots and the like. Nom nom. A vintage pink GE kitchen!

Vintage dinettes galore:

All in the space in front of the kitchen are vintage dinettes galore.

Brutalist furniture:

There were several nice examples of brutalist furniture…

I spotted a Broyhill Brasilia bar cart complete with gorgeous tile insets.

And just plain gorgeous midcentury modern furniture.

And I give up on categories — here’s lots more:

Vintage clothing:

Upstairs is the vintage clothing section … and this is where Heidi and I hit a Gold Mine.

The Hawaiian-style dresses — see — a whole rack — a whole rack of NEW OLD STOCK. And quite a few in OUR SIZES. We had a heyday trying on dresses. They looked great on us — and the prices were terrific!

Heidi bought five.

And so did I! I was pretty excited. As you can tell.

Thanks to Heidi for taking me shopping. And super thanks to Retro Vegas owners Mark Comstock (above) and Bill Johnson: In support of Nevada Preservation’s Home & History Tour, they provided the furniture for the staging of the Jackie Gaughan apartment (that story: to come!) And, they offered a 15% discount to Home & History attendees — which I certainly took advantage of!