Catherine Shoichet: Squirrels are scampering in the ceiling. The sewing machine won't stitch straight. Nine naked mannequin torsos stand in the display windows, beside sale signs that say "Last Days."
After nearly four hours on the last day, no customers have come through the doors of Arnold's Men's Wear.
In September, Arnold Argintar sold his Central Avenue building and decided to retire, seven months after his 90th birthday.
It is not how he expected to leave the store he built from scratch. For weeks, he struggled with second thoughts, rescheduled his retirement.
Finally it has come to this, the last leisure suits and layaways of a 72-year career.
"This," Argintar says, "is a pistol of a day."
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