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near the town of Lyon. Another boy “Vintage Rose is a happy place. Tech
captured her attention, which led to a students love the vintage 60s and 70s
summer with his family in Fairbanks, clothing. More mature shoppers are
AK. When that ended, she went back often looking for 1920s or Renaissance
to Naples where she fell in love, costumes. Often, people have an event
married, and had a baby girl, Kirsten. to dress for, so they are anticipating
Life was good. a good time.” She dresses creatively
herself, and after 34 years, she is
Most of the 70s was spent in something of a stylist. She knows just
Philadelphia where her husband went the thing that someone will love. In
to the University of Pennsylvania, 2012, Vintage Rose moved to 34th
and Cyndy earned a degree in Art. St. The space is filled to overflowing
Sadly, the marriage ended, but Cyndy with all kinds of treasures. Most of us
found love again in 1979. Her new remember the joy of dressing up as
husband followed his dentistry career a child. Vintage Rose can whisk you
to Reese AFB in Lubbock. She loved back to those days the second you
Texas from the beginning, especially step through the door.
the people in Lubbock. Life was good with granddaughter Ana�s
again. She earned her Master’s in Art Cyndy West-Ward is spontaneous,
at Texas Tech and was able to return artistic, and very social. “People
to France twice to study art in the feed my soul,” she says. When she
Loire Valley. She and her friends lived in a chateau for looks back over her life, she smiles. There have been
six weeks and made merveilleux souvenirs (wonderful some challenging times, to be sure, but the memories
memories.) Another especially important and rewarding that surface are the happy ones. And that smile of
part of Cyndy’s life for the last 30 years is the Lubbock contentment is what makes Cyndy the most charming
Chorale. treasure in the Vintage Rose.

Cyndy opened Vintage Rose in 1988 in Cactus Alley.
Her dad had taken his three girls to many Italian flea
markets where he encouraged them to use their Italian.
While in Grenoble, she would go often to the Paris flea
market. She amassed a large collection of jewelry. The
previous proprietor of the Cactus Alley location had
a costume shop. People kept coming to Vintage Rose
asking for costumes, so she added that department. She
found that she really loved vintage clothing and jewelry
and acquires much of her inventory at estate sales—
especially if the people were “keepers.” Granddaughter Ana�s, daughter Kirsten, Cyndy,
and sister Keeley

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