Main Sheet Metal opened on Main Street in 1922. They closed their doors today. This is their last day on site. I've dealt with them for the last 5 years. Many say it's a sad thing to see this metal fabrication shop shut down just shy of 100 years in business. But they shut down of their own accord. They were retiring. They were a going concern making decent money right up until the end. It makes me happy that people can still make a living doing this kind of thing. They had just gotten to a point where they wanted to retire, they'd had enough. They weren't forced out, there wasn't an economic hardship that forced them to make the hard decision to close the doors. No, they decided they'd had enough. They'd worked enough. And it was time to shut it down.
The floors were wooden. There were no sprinklers. A shop like this may not exist anywhere else in the North America. It will never exist again. That makes me sad. But I'm happy for the owners.
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