On my recent trip to Chattanooga for Chatty Crafty (more on that soon!), my traveling pals—
Courtney Fischer and
Laura Berger—and I decided we needed a little taste of Nashville on our trip home. One of the highlights of our stop was visiting
Hatch Show Print. Now part of the Country Music Hall of Fame, this letterpress printing shop has been churning out stunning letterpress gig posters and more since 1897. The early years were country music, vaudeville, circus shows and more. Nowadays, everyone from the Beastie Boys and Andrew Bird to Ira Glass and the Trans Siberian Orchestra seek out Hatch for their unique style. You can see a great selection of their more recent posters on
gigposters.
The cats of Hatch figure very heavily into some of their designs. We witnessed this little fellow live and in person (in cat?!) mowing down on a little mouse dinner the night before when we walked by the shop after hours.
P.S. Chronicle published
a great book about Hatch in 2001.
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