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Originally Posted by psw
Funny, there is a barber pole mounted on the wall of the dealership shown in post 2918!
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That's because it IS a Barber Shop inside that storefront. Can't quite make out the proprietor's name on the door, but says something like "GARY'S BARBER SHOP". Chances are the guy in the white shirt crossing the street is about to get a hair cut.
The dealer's service garage entrance is thru the open overhead door. Not sure what the storefront space on the other side of the overhead door was being used for, perhaps vacant at the time.
But looks to me the dealership sales office and showroom is at the far corner, inside the 2 story block building.
The sign above the glass windows on the first floor reads "Schwartz Pontiac Oldsmobile Co.". In addition to the Pontiac sign and the GMC sign jutting off that building, a Rambler sign is partially obscured (I think by the back side of the signs identifying the approaching highway junction on a tall signpost). I figure they had a couple cars on display in that building and the sales guys hung out there.
My guess is that Harry Schwartz owned all of that property, including the Texaco station on the corner (which looks to be closed down) and leased the storefront to the barber.
Harry Schwartz seems to have died in 1997 just short of his 79th birthday. He incorporated Schwartz Enterprises, Inc. in 1971 at 203 S. Davis St. in Nashville, GA (the address of the dealership) and the corp. was dissolved in 1999, perhaps to settle his estate. Might have been when Jerry Kelley Pontiac bought out that dealership location.
I sent an email to Jerry Kelley GMC in Adel to see if anybody there had any info on the history of Schwartz Pontiac Olds but got no reply.
I have it on good authority that the Mustang was taken on trade for a '65 GTO.