EASTON, Pa. – A landmark sewing machine and vacuum repair business in downtown Easton is closing up shop.<\/p>\n
The family-owned business has been a Lehigh Valley staple for more than six decades.<\/p>\n
“It’s time to slow down,” said Bob Brindisi, owner of White Sewing Center.<\/p>\n
Nestled on Northampton Street for the last 65 years, White Sewing Center has been the place for everyone’s quick fix.<\/p>\n
Brindisi said he sells and fixes sewing machines and vacuum cleaners, and he learned how to repair them from the best teacher there was.<\/p>\n
“Just learned by looking over my dad’s shoulders,” said Brindisi.<\/p>\n
For the last 44 years and six days a week, Brindisi was the “go-to guy”.<\/p>\n
“Nobody knows how to fix, and I fix,” said Brindisi. “We’re old school. If you look inside there, you’ll see what I mean.”<\/p>\n
But as times changed and the internet grew, business slowed.<\/p>\n
“During the 80s and 90s, it was great,” said Brindisi. “People would line up out the door. It was easy, but nobody comes in anymore.\u201d<\/p>\n
Now the time has come for Bob and his sidekick Paul Lucykanish to pause their projects and start closing up shop.<\/p>\n
“We hang out together every day. You know, like we’ve been doing for a while now,” said Lucykanish. “I mean we get to know people a lot, and they love us.\u201d<\/p>\n
Longtime customer Sarah “Sunshine” Hinsch certainly does.<\/p>\n
“Bob and Paul are just absolute legends,” said Hinsch. “We just bought our last sewing machine.”<\/p>\n
But the iconic duo won’t be gone for good. With every ending, there is a new beginning, and you’ll still see downtown Easton’s favorite repairmen around the Lehigh Valley.<\/p>\n
“They do house calls, and we’re so grateful that they’re not entirely leaving our community,” said Hinsch.<\/p>\n
Because a good repairman will always have the perfect fix.<\/p>\n
“Is it fair to say you’re basically ‘Bob the Builder’? asked 69 News Reporter Cierra Genelle.<\/p>\n
“You hear that? I’m ‘Bob the Fixer,” laughed Brindisi. “I don’t build it. I fix it.”<\/p>\n
The store’s last day is on October 31st, and everything for the final closing sale is 50% off.<\/p>\n
If customers need something fixed after that date, Brindisi said he will be happy to coordinate a mobile service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EASTON, Pa. – A landmark sewing machine and vacuum repair business in downtown Easton is closing up shop.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":303103,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[214,153,155,154,6290],"class_list":["post-303102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-_homepage_top_stories","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-easton-area"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303102\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/303103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}