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Ronny Shaver, 66, spent most of his life in Orange County, where he took over his dad’s automotive repair shop in Santa Ana.

So Shaver and his wife sold their condominium in Ladera Ranch and moved to a suburb just west of Knoxville, Tenn. Although he misses the community he had in Orange County and the sunny, mild climate, he’s certain that he’ll never move back.

“Now we have a house that’s four times the size on a big lot that’s paid for and money in the bank,” Shaver said.

She nimbly braids together the stories of Hortense Odlum of Bonwit, which moved locations but basically disappeared by 2000; Geraldine Stutz of Henri Bendel, shuttered since 2019; and Dorothy Shaver of Lord & Taylor, which after slow decline was delivered a definitive death blow by the pandemic.

A single 5.2-ounce tube could have a daily shaver putting their best face forward well into the second half of next year.