About Us

Retro Trapped was started by our founder Joseph Njoku-Obi III (Naka) from a developing collection he built and curated over the past decade. As an extremely crazed collector who owned in partnership a successful footwear boutique in the Bay Area from 2012-2022, he found himself getting involved in additional hobbies outside of just sneakers to keep his passion burning. To go alongside all of the thrifting, buying, & trading vintage goods that he was already doing, he'd frequent Antique Fairs in Northern California where he met one of his biggest inspirations.

Steve was a mentor of sort, & his choice hobbies like Joes fell predominantly in the realm of collecting vintage toys, tees, & comics. Before recently passing he would talk frequently with Naka about sharing the rest of his collection with the world one day beyond the local shows and Antique Faire blacktops. Using our love for collecting the various items that we once had & the powerful desire to attain the ones that we didn't , we dedicate the development of the Retro Trapped platform and its community to Steve who inspired our founder beyond measure.

 

 We buy, sell, trade, & stream vintage products on platforms like whatnot on a weekly basis and can always be contacted for quotes on items you may want to sell via IG @retrotrapped or through email.