The Glassmith graduates to brick-and-mortar
Like all the Glassmith trailers, the new Airport Boulevard store has a glassblowing studio. Owner Billy Marsden at right, holding a torchThe trailer is the cradle of big-city business dreams. We’ve seen it again and again in Austin with dinky little food trucks that become polished restaurant franchises. But what if your dream is a pipe trailer? Wait ... do pipe trailers exist?
“I’d been blowing glass for five years and I was struggling – just trying to get by and thinking, 'What can I do in Austin?’” he says. “I was like 'Well shit, let’s boost up this food trailer shit and bring in glassblowing.’ I looked all through the city to see what kind of rules there were against it and, at the time, there was no mobile permit, except if you were a food truck. I also looked into the glassblowing thing pretty heavily and the answer wasn’t there.
Marsden tells me this as we sit in the back of his newly opened Glassmith brick and mortar on Airport Boulevard – a street about which the words “walking traffic” have never been uttered. But, sitting there with him, I get the impression that Billy Marsden is the kind of person who stays at odds with himself as a way to think critically about what he’s doing and constantly refine his business. He’s proud of the new store, but – hilariously – he won’t rule out it being a bad idea.
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