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trends, a few old fashioned pen stores are still holding on.Walking into Daly's Pen Shop in Milwaukee is like leaping back in time. Ninety year old, custom made wood storage cabinets line the walls, antique ink bottles lurk on the shelves, and Sinatra songs serenade customers as they walk in.The pens range from the Japanese Pilot Namiki pens retractable fountain pens that range from $150 to $300 to the Waterford pens, as in Waterford Crystal.Daly's owner, Brad Bodart, points out classic Cross Rollerball pens for $40, and fancy Montblanc fountain pens that sell for $1,000. He says that whatever the price point, a good pen completes the package."You have a nice pair of shoes, you have a nice belt, you have a nice handbag, and you have a nice pen," Bodart says. "Nothing bothers us more than seeing a businessperson pull a Bic out of their pocket."Before The Email EraDaly's opened in downtown Milwaukee in 1924, when most business and correspondence was done on paper. Bodart says he doesn't know of an older pen store that's still in business.Just in the past few years, Bodart has seen his sales plummet by nearly half. He's able to keep his store open because of expanded online sales and a side business selling antique pens on eBay."I won't lie. The electronics have taken a bite out of the writing instrument business," he says. "But there's a core group of people [for whom] pens are just embedded into their soul, and we still have a good, viable business."Like Writing With ButterPublic school teacher Lisa Marie Menefee just popped into Daly's to get ink for the Montblanc pen her husband gave her 20