{"id":452987,"date":"2026-09-04T05:28:58","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T05:28:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/452987\/"},"modified":"2026-09-04T05:28:58","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T05:28:58","slug":"sacramento-thrift-town-of-lady-bird-fame-delays-closure-by-one-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/452987\/","title":{"rendered":"Sacramento Thrift Town of \u2018Lady Bird\u2019 fame delays closure by one month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A popular Sacramento thrift store featured on the silver screen is staying open for a few more weeks, extending its business until the end of September.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Valley Thrift Town at 410 El Camino Ave. was originally set to close in<a data-ylk=\"slk:late August.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/news\/business\/article316803697.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"> late August.<\/a> The store will still be permanently closing, according to Neeko Alkakos, who runs the secondhand shop.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The thrift store was featured in the 2017 film &#8220;Lady Bird,&#8221; which was set and shot in Sacramento by director Greta Gerwig, who is from the area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The extended closure is to &#8220;give the customers more time to shop,&#8221; as the store is currently selling all its inventory, Alkakos said. The store was purchased in July. Alkakos did not say why it was sold or who the buyer was<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Merchandise is 85% off across the store, Alkakos said. This sale applies to clothing, houseware, jewelry, shoes and costumes, according to its <a data-ylk=\"slk:social media.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ValleyThriftTown\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">social media.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This isn&#8217;t the first time Thrift Town has shut. <a data-ylk=\"slk:In 2020;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/news\/business\/article243453666.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">In 2020<\/a>, the store, as well as its counterparts in Contra Costa County, Carmichael, and south Sacramento, closed. The closures were prompted by a decrease in business due to COVD-19.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">That&#8217;s when the Alkakos family and a group of employees bought the El Camino Avenue location from Norquist Salvage. A year later, the store reopened as Valley Thrift Town.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Valley Thrift Town is owned primarily by Neeko Alkakos&#8217;s father, Sam Alkakos, he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The store is open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. daily.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A popular Sacramento thrift store featured on the silver screen is staying open for a few more weeks,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":452988,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[178978,107685,178980,178982,121,123,122,178981,178979],"class_list":["post-452987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-alkakos","tag-el-camino-ave","tag-neeko-alkakos","tag-neeko-alkakoss","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news","tag-thrift-town","tag-valley-thrift-town"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=452987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452987\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/452988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=452987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=452987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=452987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}