{"id":305765,"date":"2014-06-28T05:17:18","date_gmt":"2014-06-28T10:17:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=305765"},"modified":"2014-06-29T17:17:55","modified_gmt":"2014-06-29T22:17:55","slug":"downtown-shop-closing-doors-after-40-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=305765","title":{"rendered":"Downtown Shop Closing Doors after 40 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2014\/06\/levines.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2014\/06\/levines-150x150.png\" alt=\"levines\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-305768\" \/><\/a>TYLER &#8212; The historic view in downtown Tyler will soon change. After 40 years, Levines is closing its doors due to financial reasons. Ralph Mason, store manager, said, &#8220;I find fault with no one. Its sad where we are now, but those things happen and the times change, and its best to remember the good things in life.&#8221; Looking back on his 35 years, Mason says its been memorable. &#8220;I haven&#8217;t worked a day in my life, I got paid to come in and visit with my friends, and every person that walked through the door was our friend,&#8221; said Mason. KETK reports, being the oldest store in downtown, Levines is leaving behind a legacy. In its prime, it was in 11 states with 152 stores, and now it has three, including the Tyler location.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER &#8212; The historic view in downtown Tyler will soon change. After 40 years, Levines is closing its doors due to financial reasons. Ralph Mason, store manager, said, &#8220;I find fault with no one. Its sad where we are now, but those things happen and the times change, and its best to remember the good &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=305765\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Downtown Shop Closing Doors after 40 Years<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-305765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-11 14:18:15","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=305765"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":305780,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305765\/revisions\/305780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=305765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=305765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=305765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}