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Old 08-17-2020, 01:34 AM
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Found an image of the building under the Faulkner occupancy, along with a brief story of it's history as a dealership:
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The Manheim Township site, with its high visibility and traffic count, has a long and occasionally colorful history as a car dealership.
It first became a car dealership in 1941, when Wiggins Chevrolet moved there from North Prince Street, newspaper records show.
Twenty-six years later, Wiggins Chevrolet was rebuilt after a major fire caused more than $500,000 damage.
In 1970, the business was sold to Scott-Murphy Chevrolet, later renamed Larry Murphy Chevrolet.
It was during that era that the dealership made headlines for an ill-fated Fourth of July promotion.
But plans to fire a 28-foot rocket on July 4, 1989 were scrapped when the dealership learned documents used to obtain the rocket engines were forged.
(The rocket still is in storage in the building's basement.)
Faulkner acquired the dealership later that year.
source credit: https://lancasteronline.com/business...397ec084e.html
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