Below is the historic Sugar Loaf, New York, 1980 Events Brochure.
Circa 1980 Sugar Loaf was hosting at least one (1) major event every single month
of the year, and top quality artists would travel from as far away as California to be participants in the
highest quality most carefully juried events in the United States.
A major instigator of the monthly events and the de facto full-time
volunteer advertising paste-up artist was
Jon Baugh,
though we all did much volunteer work and our own paste-up ... PressType had become a hamlet
staple.
Click on the brochure ads below to view
Walking Map
locations which provide links to the current shops found at each
historic location.
Notes
01/29/2014
Paintings In Glass was
Jon Baugh, and access to his shop was from the Romer's Alley entrance to
what is currently Katwalk.
Rob Wright Sculpture and Pottery Studio soon moved
from the Red Barn (top of Scott's Meadow) to what is now
Pisces Passions on Kings Highway.
Later Syms Jewelry would buy the building housing the
Rob Wright Gallery (now
Pisces Passions),
and Milt and Sylvia would move their jewelry and collectables business into the building after Rob and
Linda built their post and beam house in Warwick and moved the studio.
Bob Fugett and Mary Endico of Fantasy Factory were already in their current location
on Kings Highway and had not yet dropped the name in favor of Endico
Watercolors (and KeyTap) due to the number of weird phone calls
they were getting plus the possible conflict with Fantasy Records for
use of Fantasy Factory as a music record label.
Great Buffalo Leather Works was the primary precursor
of what is now Into Leather; soon after Great Buffalo closed
Roy Beaudelaire (a Scott's Meadow artist) noticed the continued flow of
people asking for handmade custom leather goods, so Roy said, "Yeah, I can
learn how to do that," and took over the business; after Roy and his wife
Karen left for greener pastures in Florida state, Paula and Eli Agi began
servicing the already established clientele from a
new location on Kings Highway; in recent years they have been managing
the business from afar.
Unfortunately after the great migration of artists moved
from Scott's Meadow to the main street (Zungoli photography, Moon Angel jewelry and Boswell
pottery among them, still here almost a half century later), the owners of the property
misinterpreted the apparent ease with which artists were being successful in
Sugar Loaf and proceeded to chop the Meadow buildings into a large number of
tiny retail cubicles, so it became impossible to begin a
business, create, produce,
and succeed there while growing a following.
The current sad state of the Scott's Meadow buildings (more
or less abandoned by absentee landlords) has become testament to a poorly
understood situation prompting their business model that failed because it
ignored the blood sport aspects of a life in the arts.
In any case it is often missed by newcomer businesses that being
a creative artist, producing handmade one of a kind items that are not
available anywhere else in the world, is the primary business model for
success in Sugar Loaf.
It was like that back in 1980, and it remains true today in
2014.