the last meow

I suppose that 20 years is about nine lives in cat years, right? Well, even so ... another punk/goth/kitsch store bites the dust in Royal Oak. The Cat's Meow will close it's door at the end of this month. It didn't spent all it's 20 years in Royal Oak; it started as a small vintage clothing store in Ann Arbor before opening another store in Madison, WI and then finally coming "home" to Royal Oak in 1996. They outlived others such as Cinderella's Attic and I can only wonder how long stores like Incognito and Noir Leather will last? I only shopped at the Cat's Meow a couple times, but it's kind of like saying goodbye to your youth, in a way...

You can read an article about the closing of Cat's Meow and if you'd like to stop in one last time for farewells and fishnets, they are having something of a wake on January 30th from 1-9pm. (There are also big sales going on!)