One Trip Pass at Billy Reid

When Jay Carroll from Rogues Gallery had a bad combination of winter/recession blues a few months back, he and Ned Martel, late of Men's Vogue, headed out west for some sunshine and some blacktop therapy. "We started wondering what the West might have been like in the summer of 1976, with all the patriotism around the bicentennial, and then we set out on the road to find out," Carroll says. "We hit Twentynine Palms [and the Wonder Valley Thrift Shop, pictured], Joshua Tree, Tucson, Las Cruces, Marfa, Austin, and a lot more. The thrifting's great out there, and we were buying up stuff anyway, so we thought we might as well do a pop-up shop to try to get people excited about America and about summer." Starting Thursday, the two take over the parlor room at Billy Reid, where they're about to hole up to install a mise-en-sc