A New Orleans tradition, that exists only as an old memory, is the excitement of a day spent shopping on Canal Street when it was lined with department stores and ladies donned white gloves — even if only to meet friends under the clock at D.H. Holmes.

In the middle of that bustling strip was Adler’s, a family-owned jewelry and gift shop, where generations of brides registered for china, crystal and sterling flatware and krewe captains commissioned pins for their courts.

While the gloves and hats on Canal Street long ago gave way to hotels, quick-serve restaurants and T-shirt shops, Adler’s, once known as the Tiffany’s of the South, has remained — until now.

After 127 years in continuous operation, Adler’s is going out of business, according to its fourth-generation owner, Coleman E. Ad

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