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Posted online March 5, 2006 | 11:00 pm

“I think that change started coming along in the late ‘60s, and downtown tried to fight it – and made a lot of mistakes.”

—Bent Agee on changes that eventually spelled the end of Heer’s and the Golden Age of downtown retail. Click here for the story.

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