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The Dispatch/Maryland Coast Dispatch
August 16, 2013
Four Decades Later, Paco’s Paradise Still Going Strong
By JOANNE SHRINER
STAFF WRITER
John Hastings, pictured with his wife and partner, Teresa, opened Paco’s Paradise in downtown Ocean City in 1973 before moving to the Village of Fenwick one year later. They also own Krugerrand. Photo by Travis Brown
OCEAN CITY – Paco’s Paradise is celebrating 40 years of bringing one-of-a-kind, hand-crafted clothing to returning and new customers alike. When John Hastings, owner of Paco’s Paradise, graduated from college in 1971, he traveled to Mexico with a fraternity brother and ended up living there for nine months. While in Mexico, he bought hand-embroidered shirts from an Indian market in Southern Mexico, Oaxaco. When Hastings returned to the United Stated, he gifted two hand-embroidered shirts to his brother, David, while he attended Wake Forest University in North Carolina.
“Every time he wore the shirts, people would ask where he got them, and he talked me into going back to Mexico and start exporting these shirts. That’s how it all started,” he said. Throughout the entire decade of the 1970s, Hastings worked in and out of Mexico exporting hand-made clothing until 1973 when the first Paco’s Paradise opened on Somerset Street in south Ocean City. It was only a year later when the clothing store moved to the Village of Fenwick in Fenwick Island. Hastings explained his brother named the store Paco, which is a nickname for Frank in Spanish. Hastings met his wife, Teresa, a couple years later in 1976 who worked at a necklace SEE NEXT PAGE
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