My name is Scott Peake and I own Standard Deluxe in Waverly, Alabama.
Standard Deluxe is a design and silk screen print shop and we have a little bit of a
live music problem.
Out of high school I started screen printing with the professor of mine in his garage and
then out of college I started a t-shirt line with a couple guys in Auburn that had a screen
printing shop.
I left that company and moved to Waverly in 1991 and started Standard Deluxe with two
brothers, two good friends of mine from Ozark.
I collect or I used to collect rubber stamps so anytime I was in flea market or antique
store I would look for them and I found a basket in South Georgia I think and so I bought
two or three of them and one said Standard and one said Deluxe.
I just stamped them together one time when I was stamping stuff and then wrote a Standard
Deluxe design.
Friend of mine said, that's a great name, you should call it Standard Deluxe.
We did this howl design conference so we met a lot of designers, a lot of big designers
just from going to the show so that sort of networked us into doing a lot of printing
work for design companies and advertising agencies and stuff.
So that just added to the mix.
We're selling our line of shirts, we're doing custom work, we would do t-shirt sales every
year at least once a year, put up flyers all around Auburn and stuff.
Sometimes we would do a potluck, sometimes we'd have a band play, sometimes we'd have
a bonfire, sometimes we'd grill out and we'd just have groups of people come out.
So we were always doing that, then in the year 2000 they had been working on the four
lane around Waverly.
They rerouted the highway because the traffic came right through here, this little road,
18 wheelers all day long.
That year in 2001 a lot of the townspeople thought it would be good to have a street
party on the year anniversary of the bypass opening so we had the first old 280 boogie.
2009, 10, 11 I guess.
A few times a year we had a music event at Fred's Feeding Seed in Lochapoca, Alabama.
I mean basically I did the shows at Fred's because I didn't have anywhere here to do
them.
A few years ago we renovated the little wooden house next door and the room sounded incredible.
It's a space for small music events and hopefully it's going to be a space for recording
music and eventually like podcasting or putting together a little show, I mean that's what
we want to do.
Occasionally we'll have an outdoor show on the stage and we get asked to do way more
music than we could ever do.
It's more labor of love than anything else.
So we started doing some shows on Sunday and inviting a chef.
That's turned into maybe three or four different chefs have been and love coming here, love
the place, love the people and then they just cook for tips.
I'm torn in many directions.
I like using all materials, I like renovating stuff, I like building stuff.
I love music, I love hosting music, I still love printing.
I would love to do more of my own artwork.
For being in business for 25 years that the word of mouth and the quality is spoken around
and people still do come to us for a good print job.
