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Family business closes after 96 years |
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Thursday, 01 May 2008 |
COLUMBIA -- In a blow to Main Street, Lourie’s, one of the city’s oldest and most respected men’s clothiers, will close June 30 after doing business for 96 years. An especially difficult year of too few sales — coupled with a down economy — cut short its owners’ hopes of seeing the 100th anniversary, said Frank Lourie, president of the family-owned business, which got its start in 1912.
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