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David Kohler owner Norridge Jewelers cuts ring before soldering it together agamake it fit better for customer. | Ryan Pagelow~Sun-Times

David Kohler, owner of Norridge Jewelers, cuts a ring before soldering it together again to make it fit better for a customer. | Ryan Pagelow~Sun-Times Media

A customer tries ring Norridge Jewelers. | Ryan Pagelow~Sun-Times Media

A customer tries on a ring at Norridge Jewelers. | Ryan Pagelow~Sun-Times Media

David Kohler owner Norridge Jewelers displays gold coins ingots. The store buys sells gold. | Ryan Pagelow~Sun-Times Media

David Kohler, owner of Norridge Jewelers, displays gold coins and ingots. The store buys and sells gold. | Ryan Pagelow~Sun-Times Media

David Kohler owner Norridge Jewelers polishes buffs rings before cleaning them. | Ryan Pagelow~Sun-Times Media

David Kohler, owner of Norridge Jewelers, polishes and buffs rings before cleaning them. | Ryan Pagelow~Sun-Times Media

David Kohler owner Norridge Jewelers displays gold coins ingots Thursday Nov. 3 2011. The store buys sells gold. | Ryan

David Kohler, owner of Norridge Jewelers, displays gold coins and ingots on Thursday, Nov. 3, 2011. The store buys and sells gold. | Ryan Pagelow~Sun-Times Media

Gold coins available Norridge Jewelers which buys sells gold. | Ryan Pagelow~Sun-Times Media

Gold coins available at Norridge Jewelers which buys and sells gold. | Ryan Pagelow~Sun-Times Media

David Kohler owner Norridge Jewelers started working store with his dad when he was 16 while he was student Ridgewood

David Kohler, owner of Norridge Jewelers, started working at the store with his dad when he was 16 while he was a student at Ridgewood High School. | Ryan Pagelow~Sun-Times Media

Renee Sliwicki shows customer DPaolicchi Schiller Park different options for new watch bands Norridge Jewelers. | Ryan Pagelow~Sun-Times Media

Renee Sliwicki shows customer Don Paolicchi of Schiller Park different options for new watch bands at Norridge Jewelers. | Ryan Pagelow~Sun-Times Media

David Kohler owner Norridge Jewelers rests with his dog Kozzi store office. | Ryan Pagelow~Sun-Times Media

David Kohler, owner of Norridge Jewelers, rests with his dog Kozzi in the store office. | Ryan Pagelow~Sun-Times Media

Renee Sliwicki removes watch battery for customer Norridge Jewelers. | Ryan Pagelow~Sun-Times Media

Renee Sliwicki removes a watch battery for a customer at Norridge Jewelers. | Ryan Pagelow~Sun-Times Media

David Kohler owner Norridge Jewelers talks phone while his dog Kozzi plays. | Ryan Pagelow~Sun-Times Media

David Kohler, owner of Norridge Jewelers, talks on the phone while his dog Kozzi plays. | Ryan Pagelow~Sun-Times Media

David Kohler owner Norridge Jewelers replaces watch battery while customer waits. | Ryan Pagelow~Sun-Times Media

David Kohler, owner of Norridge Jewelers, replaces a watch battery while a customer waits. | Ryan Pagelow~Sun-Times Media

David Kohler owner Norridge Jewelers uses torch solder repair ring. | Ryan Pagelow~Sun-Times Media

David Kohler, owner of Norridge Jewelers, uses a torch to solder and repair a ring. | Ryan Pagelow~Sun-Times Media

Sales staff SarCurry (left) Gail Muszynski go over paperwork Norridge Jewelers. | Ryan Pagelow~Sun-Times Media

Sales staff Sara Curry (left) and Gail Muszynski go over paperwork at Norridge Jewelers. | Ryan Pagelow~Sun-Times Media

David Kohler owner Norridge Jewelers stands next his guard dog Kozzi store which his dad Budd opened 1970s. David started

David Kohler, owner of Norridge Jewelers, stands next to his guard dog Kozzi in the store which his dad, Budd, opened in the 1970s. David started working at the store when he was 16 while he was a student at Ridgewood High School. | Ryan Pagelow~Sun-Times

David Kohler has followed in his dad’s footsteps as owner of Norridge Jewelers. “When I was 16 going to Ridgewood High School I would come after school,” Kohler said. His dad, Budd, opened Norridge Jewelers in 1976 and moved it near the corner of Cumberland …