Working Title: Center City Thrift
Logline: A small Allentown thrift store offers a unique, but necessary service for the city.
As mentioned in one of my previous posts, I’m interested in creating a documentary on the Center City Thrift Shop in Allentown. Center City Thrift Shop is seen by many to just be a thrift store, when in fact the store’s initiatives supports the only community wireless (wifi) network in the Lehigh Valley. This brings to question why this initiative (free wifi for the community) is even needed. I think exploring this place in the Lehigh Valley will help tell a story about not only the thrift store itself, but also the people behind the program and more importantly, the surrounding community that benefits from it. Broadly, the short documentary would nuance the differences in experiences between those with a higher socio-economic status and those with a lower SES in the Lehigh Valley, and how while these people’s experiences can be vastly different, they could be living minutes away from each other in different town sections.