At the age of 91 after seven decades in the business, Elwood Flynn is retiring and closing his menswear store.
He suggests it was the best type of business for making friends, and many of his customers are his best friends.
Some of his clientele over the years includes Gordie Howe, Red Skelton and Harry Belafonte.
Flynn says music is one of his passions, and musicians in town for the jazz festival would shop at his store.
One of his closest friends is Clark Terry, who played with Duke Ellington and Count Basie.
The retirement sale begins this Thursday and continues until the doors close on 3rd Avenue South at the end of May.
He has also mailed suits as far away as Japan, and Flynn remembers sending tux and tails to a member of the Canadian Embassy in Ethiopia.
Flynn says the market isn’t good right now for selling a business like his, so the doors will close instead.