There was a men's store near Purude when I was a kid. It had opened after WW2 by an older gentleman who had been a tailor in Chicago. He opened it with his son who had returned from the war and after seeing all the fashion in Europe, had made friends in Italy and france etc. The son wanted to study at Purdue on the GI bill, so the idea was to run a men's store. In the 60's, the old man died, and the son had a going out of business sale. I delivered papers there in the 70's, and bought my suit for HS graduation there. It thrived until about the time I graduated from college, when the son retired. It had a going out of business sale running for over 30 years. They had a 'retirement sale', and the son on local TV wrote on the sign in the window, using a big marker, "I'm serious, really".

I'm told the retirement sale was so good, they would have kept going, except he had sold the building to a kinkos, and some sort of coffee place.