Published Jan. 26, 2009
Buying a popular, landmark local business sounds like a winning idea, right? But what if that 82-year-old business just announced it's closing? Veteran bookseller Lanora Hurley is diving in and doing just that by keeping the Schwartz shop in Mequon open as Next Chapter Bookshop.
Published Jan. 19, 2009
Eighty-two years after Harry Schwartz and his partner opened Casanova Books in the back of a Downer Avenue hair salon, Schwartz's shops are closing. It is truly the end of an era. Although there are businesses as old and considerably older still in Milwaukee, few have had the kind of runs Schwartz did. And that's because Harry and, later, his son David, never said never.
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