Lisa Walz shops Tuesday at Brown Novelty. The Enquirer/MEGGAN BOOKER

Brown Novelty is closing its store on Reading Road in Pendleton on Saturday.

Since 1947, customers looking for talking toilet seats, rubber chickens, fake noses, maracas, plastic swords, kazoos and 2,000 other items priced from 1 cent and up went to Brown Novelty - previously located on Fourth Street downtown - for their goodie-bag and carnival-prize needs.

But owner Gordon Braun, 53, had quadruple bypass heart surgery in February and has decided to close the store.

"I'm very pleased with the reaction of people who have come in to say they're sorry we're leaving. Some of them are the children of parents my dad took care of years and years ago," Braun said.

"It's been a long run, it's been a good run and a clean run, and I hate to see it end."