FARMINGTON (AP) — A Maine jewelry store has closed its doors for good after 159 years in business.
Trask Jewelers in Farmington had a last-minute flurry of sales and repairs for loyal customers on New Year’s Eve before closing down.
Current owner John Anderson is 62 and wants to retire, but couldn’t find anyone to take over the business. He tells the Online Sentinel not many young people are willing to put in the 60- to 70- hour weeks it takes to run a business.
Anderson has been running things since 1981, when he took over from his father, Paul, who bought the store in 1955.
Anderson said the store was started in 1855 by J.A. Blake and run by his family until 1928, when Blake’s watchmaker, L.G. Trask, took over.
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