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Saturday, October 28, 2006

Original Carvel Ice Cream Stand in Jeopardy (NY Times)

From The New York Times:

By Erin Duggan
Published: October 27, 2006

The first McDonald’s franchise is a museum in Des Plaines, Ill. The first Starbucks is still selling coffee in Seattle. But the first Carvel ice cream stand, which Tom Carvel opened here in 1936, has just been sold and will probably be torn down.

The 1.45-acre lot where the shop sits was sold by the Yonkers-based Thomas and Agnes Carvel Foundation in mid-September for $3.5 million to a group that said it intended to develop the land. The group, which includes Abdol Faghihi, who runs the Carvel, wants to build three stores on the property, and though one of them may be a Carvel, it will not be the original.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/27/nyregion/nyregionspecial2/29wecarvel.html

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