“Last Downtown Peoria jewelry store has closed” |
| Last Downtown Peoria jewelry store has closed Posted: 14 Jan 2011 01:41 PM PST PEORIA — The last remaining Downtown jewelry store has closed. Charles A. Schoenheider Jewelers, 432 Main St., closed at the end of last month although the store remains open through January to complete repair work for customers, said owner Charles Schoenheider III, who refused further comment about his decision to close. Store windows are bare and a small sign on the door indicates the store is closed. The store, which had a reputation for quality merchandise. had operated at the Main Street location for 37 years. Schoenheider's father, Charles Jr., who died in 2003, ran a jewelry store in Downtown Peoria for more than 50 years. Peoria once boasted numberous jewelry stores in the Downtown area but after Potter & Anderson moved out of the Downtown in 1994 to a location on Sheridan Road, near Glen Avenue, the Schoenheider jewelry store was the last jeweler left operating in Peoria's central business district.
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