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they buy. we caught up with the staff at t the legendary doug murdick s fudge shop. they ve been making it the same way over five decades. so many downtown in america have died and traverse city has wal-mart s, sam s club and a costco now. why is downtown traverse city surviving and flourishing? well why has it been survived and flourishing? they ve promoted it a lot, the cherry industry and the cherry festival. we have winter festivals. we have a film festival now, a lot they ve done to improve downtown. doug is my dad and he started with six flavors in 1964 and black cherry was one of them to promote traverse city and cherries. leland: what s it taken to keep family business going for 60 years? that s unusual. i don t know. we all love each other and you know, we get along real well.