Gerry Beckley has some peculiar enthusiasms. A founding member of the ’70s Cali-rock band America, he spends most of his days on the road reviving ‘‘Sister Golden Hair.’’ And each morning, like clockwork, he photographs the view from his hotel-room window — a ritual he’s kept up for about 15 years.
Wherever Beckley happens to be — a United States Air Force base in Japan, a street stall in Ecuador — he’s prowling for vintage treasures: classic tennis sneakers (Dunlop plimsolls), wristwatches (Bell & Ross) and especially eyeglasses made in the 1950s and 1960s by American Optical and others of that thick-framed ilk. ‘‘My tastes tend toward the archival,’’ says Beckley, 58, who has become so sophisticated about design that he can talk shop with an expanding clutch of artistically inclined friends, including the minimalist architect John Pawson and the fashion designer Steven Alan.
Beckley says collecting vintage eyewear goes way beyond the vaguely anachronistic impulses of freewebmakemoneyonline.weebly.com/url, say, an Urban Outfitters devotee. ‘‘It’s not just saying, ‘Let’s all wear Buddy Holly glasses!’ ’’ he says. ‘‘It’s understanding the difference between what Buddy wore, what Onassis wore, what James Dean wore.’’
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‘‘Gerry came in the store and said, ‘I’m a fan of what you do. I have a band you might have heard of called America,’ ’’ Alan recalls. ‘‘He even sent me a greatest-hits CD.’’ The designer and musician have become good friends freewebmakemoneyonline.weebly.com/url, and the Steven Alan outpost in TriBeCa is now stocking a small batch of vintage frames hand-picked by Beckley freewebmakemoneyonline.weebly.com/url, many with period accents like comfort-cable temples that hook around the ear (above right; $140 without lenses, $200 with tinted lenses; at 103 Franklin Street).
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