{"id":73380,"date":"2016-07-25T19:48:59","date_gmt":"2016-07-26T01:48:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/susies-gifts-closes-after-23-years\/"},"modified":"2016-07-26T01:48:59","modified_gmt":"2016-07-26T01:48:59","slug":"susies-gifts-closes-after-23-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/susies-gifts-closes-after-23-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Susie\u2019s Gifts closes after 23 years"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=d1f76abd-206f-4a8f-ac45-055acba9f3c8&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" alt=\"Susie\u2019s Gifts on Main closes after a 23-year run. Pictured are owner Susie Keck, customers Jim Harrison and Sandy Weaver, and Susie\u2019s husband, Joe Keck.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Susie\u2019s Gifts on Main closes after a 23-year run. Pictured are owner Susie Keck, customers Jim Harrison and Sandy Weaver, and Susie\u2019s husband, Joe Keck.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Jim Mimiaga\/The Journal<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>Susie\u2019s Gifts on Main has been a go-to gift shopping and greeting-card store for locals and visitors for decades.<\/p>\n<p>But owner Susie Keck has decided it\u2019s time to close up and retire, albeit with a heavy heart.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have mixed feelings and will really miss all of my customers who have become such good friends over the years,\u201d she said. \u201cAfter 23 years, I am ready to try something different.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The store opened in 1993 at a Market Street location as Susie\u2019s Hallmark.<\/p>\n<p>In 2000, Keck moved the store to 15 W. Main St. after purchasing the building. It continued as a Gold Crown Hallmark store until 2014, when the store and company parted ways. It  became Susie\u2019s Gifts on Main.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve always been committed to a downtown Cortez business. It\u2019s been a wonderful experience,\u201d Keck said.<\/p>\n<p>She\u2019s been an eyewitness to the changes of downtown Cortez over the past two decades. After McPhee dam was finished, Main Street businesses took a hit, then another after Wal-Mart moved in.<\/p>\n<p>There were a lot of vacancies, but there were rebounds each time, \u201clike a roller coaster,\u201d Keck says.<\/p>\n<p>The old Main Street guard \u2013 The Toggery, Woolworth, Goldie\u2019s Books, Jerry\u2019s Outdoors, Dream Catcher, and others, are long gone. The newer wave \u2013 Main Street Brewery, Kokopelli Bike and Board, Colorado Love Outdoors, Moose and More, beauty salons, and a slew of new restaurants \u2013 charge on into the future.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m sorry not to catch the next wave,\u201d Keck says. \u201cBut I\u2019m looking forward to traveling in our new RV and visiting family.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The store is having a blowout sale, with 20-30 percent discounts and a prize contest. A marketing firm sent out 5,000 letters about the sale, and in the first days, a line formed around the block to get into the store.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve been coming here a long time, and will miss them,\u201d said customer Jim Harrison.<\/p>\n<p>The closeout sale will continue into the coming weeks. The Main Street storefront is also for sale.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>a local favorite<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":73381,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[338,21,13,500],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-73380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-business-enterprises","tag-cortez","tag-frontpage-lead","tag-retail"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73380\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73380"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=73380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}