However, Millan says, the boutique's name — also a racial slur toward people of Asian descent — was never protested. Millan says Zipperhead got its name in a "name this store" contest, and it was more connected to David Lynch than David Duke.
The name, it turns out, came from clothing designer Raymond Ercoli, who was an art student at Glassboro State College — now Rowan University. One night, he had watched a screening of Lynch's Eraserhead at the nearby TLA, and walked by the store afterward, where he noticed a group of mannequins wearing garments with large zippers on them.
From there, the name Zipperhead was born, and Ercoli won an Atari video game system for his trouble. He also went on to design Zipperhead's logo and T-shirts. To celebrate the Zipperhead-focused episode of The Goldbergs , the punk boutique's former owner says he plans to hold a viewing party with former employees when it airs Oct.
The event, he adds, will serve as a reunion for many ex-Zipperhead workers from the store's prime, an era when punk was very much still alive. Skip to content Share Icon. It added to the mystique of Zipperhead. People would come in to check it out. We had a lot of musicians who worked in the store, so they had a wild look about them which all added to the attraction. I retired from retail in and turned the store over to long-term employees who were married at the time: Stephanie Jolles and Rob Windfelder.
They ran the store for five more years and then relocated around the corner. I think it was an evolution. South Street became a Boardwalk, people gawking at the employees.
When it moved around the corner, it became a destination place for people in the know. It still gets punk bands coming through. You walk in and you see Stef, with the purple or magenta hair. Well, Courtney Love happened to be in town a few weeks afterwards. She came to the store and she was, shall we say, buzzed. She saw the T-shirt and freaked out. We were embarrassed, getting live calls from radio stations asking to describe what happened.
The posters were plastered all over construction sites all over the city. One day, you snap. The city woke up to this one day and it got a lot of attention.
It was way back in the early 90s. So we had to convince everyone else that we were not going away. They were also not going away from South Street. But they had to find a location on it, or just off it, the same size or bigger than , that they would have the freedom to spray-paint in fabulous Day-Glo lime green with tiger stripes. They had to make landlords understand that the good guys sometimes wear black and have a lot of kids with Mohawks on the pavement.
Soon, they found Philly Vintage's double address at S. Fourth the antique clothier has kept ; one longer, bigger and wider than , with more nooks and crannies to store skull heads with bright pink wigs, pointy leopard-fur shoes and studded everything.
The new location is just far enough away from South Street's Duck buses and tourists. Usually a teenager,who wears baggy pants with lots of straps and zippers, often with a large T-shirt of their favorite band s.
Mistaken for a Goth all the time. Zipperkids wear lots of eyeliner, and are usually rebellious. Found in arcades, or stores like Hot topic. To have have consumed far too many alcoholic drinks; To be completely hammered, drunk and inebriated; To have had too much to drinks; Similar to drunk, sloshed, hammered, plastered and bombed.
The flaps of fabric on either exterior side of a zipper.
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