About 40 percent of the store’s clientele is tourists. And they frequently come in the shop looking for Indian wares. When they do, they ask about the area’s heritage and history.

When they ask where to eat, Janie Lyon says: “Pick a place.”

It used not to be that way. For a long time, Janie Lyon said, “downtown was pretty dead. Downtown did shut down pretty much. We were one of the few retail places left downtown.”

The store weathered oil downturns better than most because turquoise jewelry is far cheaper than regular jewelry. When oil bottomed out, her store’s accessories became fashionable again, she said.

Downtown has become something since the BOK Center arrived, she said.

“People are coming here as a destination to eat — not so much to shop still because there’s not that much shopping — to be entertained,” Janie Lyon said. “Another thing that we see is that we’re old. It’s really rewarding to us to see the young people taking charge … to get the other young people to come down here. We’ve watched it cycle.”

Leaving Detroit Avenue wasn’t planned. Life just happened. And the Lyons won’t be there to see downtown shopping come alive again. She said more retail will follow the coming rooftops.