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Marvin Ray was visiting Palm Beach on vacation in 1963 when he ventured into an antiques shop on North County Road. He bought the shop, The Elephant’s Foot. Now 58 years later, Ray, who is now 90, and the antiques-and-consignment emporium, which relocated to West Palm Beach in 1978, are still going strong. “I was here for a week, and I bought it,” Ray recalls. Originally from Chattanooga, Tenn., Ray worked in combustion engineering at IBM. “I went into this business to get away from computers. I have never had one since. I don’t have a cellphone, either,” Ray said on a recent morning at the 6,500-square-foot shop filled with elegant merchandise such as an Edwardian secretary from the early 20th century that’s sold after less than a month.

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