On a frigid winter morning at the warehouse of A.T. Jones & Sons costume shop in Mount Vernon, longtime owner and operator George Goebel is comfortably seated at a table and working on a headpiece—a finicky thing inside of which he’s wedged a plastic container for structure and is now sewing in seams. At 85 years old and using a walker, Goebel is still in this three-story building six days a week, albeit mostly restricted to his small makeshift workstation on the first floor. Just behind the front lobby of swords, bejeweled crowns, and suits of armor, he quietly toils away at whatever project needs attention at the business where he started in 1950 and took over in 1972—though he’ll tell you it took over him.
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