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[Music] here in Port Washington we like to consider ourselves a quaint fishing Village on the shores of Lake Michigan and uh we've worked hard to maintain that historic quality of the city fishing is just truly ingrained in Port Washington nice and easy nice and easy right here he's right here that's a nice one good job Budd so Nikki boy Charters are celebrating this year our 50th Anniversary we've been in business for 50 years and throughout those 50 years we have used ewig Brothers they're such a good partnership between the boats and the smoking we can add that special offering at the end of the day the customers can get off the boat literally walk over there and have that smoked fish done that quality product that people have come to know so [Music] well six generations and more than 130 years later a Port Washington Business will close up shop for good this week ewig Brothers a Port Washington staple announced its closing ewig Brothers plans to close its doors May 1st congrats on an incredible [Applause] [Music] run well I've been thinking about it for a couple of years and just trying to figure out how to gracefully exit some health issues are adding to it that could rear its ugly head again so I'm like that's it's time they always say you know when it's time it's kind of like you're just kind of running out of gas you know yeah had to say I was delivered today so I had to say goodbye to all my customers and yeah I was one girl she just broke down crying and this people that we've delivered to for 20 plus years you know or [Music] more I was thinking today I might be the first guy that actually retired all most of them just died my dad my grandpa everybody just kept going till they died that might be the first guy that's actually going to retire unfortunately the uh the whole the whole thing is going to go away too you [Music] know especially like through the Depression years guys could make good money fishing there was a market for the fish all over the country caught here shipped to New York Chicago it was quite the industry I don't know people are coming in here saying 130 years but I guess it really hasn't hit me that you know I'm I'm breaking this 130 Year tradition you know I just want to retire doesn't seem like it it just seems like a job you know you know every day never never thought about much about carrying it on it just uh something we always just always did it's all we knew [Music] you know you see people walk in with their children in in little carrying things and set them on the floor while some of those little kids are now coming in the store saying why you clothed I mean they've been coming in here with their parents for you know 30 40 years you know so those little little kids we see now aren't going to be as as lucky but I I can keep a piece frozen for 30 years I don't know nice Patty it was heartbreaking because I mean there's such a good partnership between the boats and the smoking but I am very confident that the turle fishing and the fishing Community will endure it's a special sadness I think the city has changed it's had to change and the history is so rich it will always maintain here but that building will be a a blank spot you know that's hard to replace there's a part of it that will always be basic Port Washington but any city has to change to survive [Music]