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Suwanee Springs closes

After 43 years, Wally Myers moves on

by Sally Mitani

posted 7/27/2011

Suwanee Springs closed at the end of May, and its owner, Wally Meyers, a downtown retailer whose stores have been pretty much a reprise of the Ann Arbor zeitgeist over forty years, is moving to Thailand. The first Suwanee Springs opened on State Street in 1968. Meyers made his own inventory: leather sandals, bags, and jackets. In the 1970s, as the

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