Irene Jericho is a sales associate at Esoterica, a store located in the 100 block of South King Street in Leesburg, an area that is being hit especially hard by the slowing economy.

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Irene Jericho is a sales associate at Esoterica, located in the 100 block of South King Street in Leesburg -- an area of town that is seeing rough times in the current economy.

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This empty building space in the 100 block of South King Street in downtown Leesburg was once an art gallery, but it's now out of business due to the hard financial times the area is facing.

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Mike Carroll, 29, owner of Leesburg Vintner on South King Street had a sign in his front window that read "Staying in Business Sale, Part 2." Carroll had a similar sign in his store window in 1993. "Just like in '93, I'm going to make it through these times," he said.

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Mike Carroll, owner of Leesburg Vintner, holds up a sign that had been hanging in his store's window for weeks. At the bottom of the sign it says, "Part 2" -- a sign almost exactly like this one was in Carroll's shop's window in 1993, during another tough economic period.

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An old photo that hangs on the wall of Mike Carroll's Leesburg Vintner store. He put the first "Staying in Business Sale" sign up in 1993 and had a similar sign in his window these past few weeks.

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Sale signs are visible in store windows all along South King Street in downtown Leesburg.

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