VIDEOSTORY: Calico Cat Calls It a Career

They say cats have nine lives. It may explain why it has taken so long for the Calico to close its doors.

The 36-year-old business has been in the process of "going out of business" since 2009. Owner Marcia Duncan hopes to close her doors this summer, and is marking down the prices of all her trinkets, books, decorations and statues by 70 percent.

The Calico Cat opened in Manchester in 1975. It moved to its current location at 109 W. Michigan Ave. before Duncan purchased the old Methodist Church, now known as Stone Arch and Events. While at the old church, business boomed. Featuring unique treasures, books, a play area for children and three friendly store cats, The Calico Cat drew shoppers from all over the region. But during the first decade of the new millennium, the collectables marked crashed, and the Calico Cat scaled back, moving back to its Michigan Avenue location.