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Brad Thomas Parsons's avatar

I remain a Jack Spade messenger bag guy. I had so many over the years when I lived in Seattle that I always bought at the Jack Spade Store at 56 Greene Street (NYC) when I was visiting NYC and used them until the corners of the bag started tearing. Five or six years ago I picked up a deadstock JS navy blue canvas messenger bag on the Poshmark and it’s pretty much strapped on my person every day.

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Brian's avatar

Picked up a navy canvas Jack Spade on eBay because Filson was too expensive. Still use it today.

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Jerry Herships's avatar

I LITERALLY found my old black Jack Spade bag THIS week.

I loved that it was slightly smaller than other messengers but big enough that it could still hold all your crap.

I love the stuff you write about.

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Eric Twardzik's avatar

Also from the same era, and now totally obscure: Ernest Alexander. I still have a waxed duffel bag of his that's my regular carry-on.

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Jason Diamond's avatar

Oh yeaaaah. I never owned one but loved how they looked.

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Ben Dietz's avatar

Never had the messenger (I don't think). I've got a cabinet full of JS briefcases just awaiting my kids's discovery of them, a decade from now. Andy one of the all time greats.

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Jason Diamond's avatar

The best. An all-timer

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Zach S's avatar

I am still using my large collection of Jack Spade bags. I can't believe this brand died. I love their bags to this day.

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Robert Dean's avatar

They'll pull my Chrome messenger bag from my cold, dead hands.

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Marty Finestone's avatar

I got my first Jack Spade wax messenger bag probably around 2006. Then in 2012, I got a black diaper bag at the old store in the Village. It meant a lot to me that my diaper bag was from Jack Spade

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Andrew Maness's avatar

I remember buying a Navy canvas messenger at the Jack Spade store on Abbot Kinney in 2010. Felt like such a boss for a week, then my car got broken into and it was gone. Went back to my roots after that with L.L. Bean totes and free Burton backpacks.

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Sara Harvey-Patrick's avatar

I had an orange messenger bag from Brooklyn Industries that was pretty much part of my uniform

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Sumeet Shah's avatar

It is WILD that you wrote this today, as this morning I decided to peruse eBay for a bit for vintage Jack Spade utility totes and - which I think is even more eponymous than the bike messagers - the coal bags!

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Betsy B's avatar

Not Timbuk2. The OG messenger bag was Manhattan Portage. That label was (still is) the coolest.

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Jason Diamond's avatar

Thank you. I couldn’t recall the name. I think since I lived in the Midwest and was out in California a lot I saw Timbuk2 more

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Betsy B's avatar

That is an excellent excuse. MP is quite niche. That, plus a Barbour that had enormous "game pockets" that could fit Norton Anthologies got me through grad school.

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Evan Olson's avatar

I really wish Jack would start a new brand...or at least do a collab with Todd Snyder or Alex Mill.

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