Ally Smith & Dynamite Athens: #ThankGodForInstagram
<p>It’s three years ago. I’m a UGA freshman holed up in my dorm room, mindlessly scrolling through Instagram. Caught in a black hole of Insta-stalking (we’ve all been there), I emerge roughly 45 minutes later to have discovered the vintage shop of my dreams (and it’s within walking distance!!!). The name is Dynamite and 70 posts in I’ve convinced myself to venture downtown with a friend to find this to-die-for store.</p>
<p>Things have never been the same since.</p>
<p>Around a year before that, Ally Smith, then-freshman at UGA, did a similar thing. She went in to Dynamite to check out the new arrivals, ended up buying “an awesome rubix cube necklace”, and asked owner Lori for the store’s Instagram handle. Lori replied with, “What’s Instagram?”</p>
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