In the gym, most of the interest is buzzing around table after table of old Whitefish Bay High School sportswear. That is a little to the consternation of those staffing the Duke Pride Spirit Wear booth where not a customer was to be seen. However, Duke Pride, the High School athletic booster organization, is the one selling the old sportswear.
The reason the vintage sportswear is more popular is simple. The old sportswear that actually looks brand new is selling for bargain prices. Jerseys and shorts are $5 and warmup jackets, sweatpants and sweatshirts are $10. But there is also the nostalgia factor.
"We have people come in asking for a specific number for a specific sport," said volunteer Peggy Coffey, who is on the Run the Bay committee and has two daughters at Whitefish Bay High. They are looking for the number they wore. She and John Gustafson, school activities director, help them try to find what they want and Gustafson actually searched the piles downstairs waiting to come up for the sale for one customer. So far, they have come up with one of the articles requested, a soccer jersey, Coffey said.
The crowd has thinned out from what it was just after the run.
"Everyone after the race came in here, it was a big crowd," Coffey said. And at her table, customers were welcome to the leftover breadsticks supplied by Great Harvest Bread in Whitefish Bay for the occasion.
