Moennig and Son closes

[secondwind]

http://www.violinist.com/blog/SMSHCT/20101/10827/ This is sad news.  It is hard to quantify what the loss of an institution like this means. 

[Cato]

America has over 300 million people.

Such a place should be more than able to survive, if it thrived when the population was less than half of what it is today.

Perhaps if they had relocated to a more amenable city than Philadelphia (San Antonio, Cincinnati, Fargo    )  they could have survived.