{"id":3325,"date":"2025-09-24T00:04:22","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T00:04:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maderatribustg.wpenginepowered.com\/?p=3325"},"modified":"2026-05-13T18:10:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T18:10:13","slug":"longtime-downtown-business-owner-named-grand-marshal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/longtime-downtown-business-owner-named-grand-marshal\/","title":{"rendered":"Longtime downtown business owner named Grand Marshal"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"3325\" class=\"elementor elementor-3325\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-46730f32 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"46730f32\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-54b58a78 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"54b58a78\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Leighton\u2019s Jewelers has been a mainstay in Downtown Madera since 1956, which was two years before Chris Miller was born. <\/p><p>Miller grew up in the business and officially bought his father out in 1991 before retiring, and closing Leighton\u2019s in 2024. The store has since reopened under a different, but same name (Leightons Custom Jewelry Repair) and  is shifting its business profile with Miller\u2019s daughter Suzie Gran and longtime jeweler Virgil Anderson.<\/p><p>\u201cRetail is not what it used to be,\u201d Miller said. \u201cI told them if I wasn\u2019t ready to retire, this is what I would do. I would downsize the inventory, eliminate a lot of the overhead and concentrate on the things you can make a living at \u2014 repairing jewelry and doing custom work. You don\u2019t need a couple million dollars of inventory staring at you because nobody is buying it. You need to provide the service the community is looking for. That\u2019s what they are doing and they are doing a great job.\u201d<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leighton\u2019s Jewelers has been a mainstay in Downtown Madera since 1956, which was two years before Chris Miller was born. Miller grew up in the business and officially bought his father out in 1991 before retiring, and closing Leighton\u2019s in 2024. The store has since reopened under a different, but same name (Leightons Custom Jewelry [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":26731,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"elementor_theme","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_angie_page":false,"page_builder":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16,18,19],"tags":[29,32],"class_list":["post-3325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","category-lifestyle","category-news","tag-community","tag-culture"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3325\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}