Dorothy McPhaul, 86, looks out the front door of her shop, Johnnie’s Antiques and Collectibles located on East Sixth Street in Austin, Texas. The shop is a part of a family business that dates as far back as 1918, when her family’s first shop was opened by her grandfather in Austin. All her life Dorothy has been taught the ins and outs of the antique business until eventually the shop, which opened in 1969, was handed down to her by her mother. Now, Dorothy fights to hold onto her family legacy as East Sixth Street is quickly developed around her. With property taxes increasing and her cell phone flooded with calls offering to buy the property, Dorothy grapples with the decision to keep her property or sell it. While she has acknowledged that one day she will sell, Dorothy says that selling the shop would be like giving a part of her body away. “It’s a part of me, a part of my heritage,” she said. “My parents worked too hard to keep it and it’s a part of our legacy, that shop.” See lin...