The Dispatch wrote
Store owner will leave big hole in Downtown’s social fabric by retiring
Saturday, February 9, 2008
BY AMY SAUNDERS
The visitors to Woodhouse Lynch Clothiers Downtown aren’t always there to buy an expensive suit. When they’re actually shopping, store owner Tom Lynch is their expert, a 49-year veteran of retailing who looks at a man and knows his shirt size.
Described by one customer as “the mayor of Broad Street,” Lynch runs a sort of fraternity and even a Thursday morning prayer group in the shop he’s owned since 1972.
So when Lynch, 69, retires and closes the store at the end of the month, customers say the void Downtown will be much larger than the empty retail space.
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