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Originally Posted by colorado hirailer:

 I never thought Gilbert's had much I wanted since they moved from down south

near the main battlefield to that other location on the side street.  (I still go

across from the old location to the Kilwin's ice cream every York trip).

Now is/was "Carver's" "on 30 west" that office machine repair shop, and the guy's

father-in-law had a little place east of Gettysburg on 30, and was handicapped (wheelchair) and a Marx collector.  Once his "father-in-law" held a flea market out in the front of that place during York week, and John Fox, Tasker Brush, and I and other Marx collectors set up in it.  I later heard he'd passed away.  I was only in that office

machine shop once.

You have it slightly wrong....The guy in the wheel chair was named Ivan Kling he ran the shop out of his house at 2500 York road and was a Marx specialist and yes he did run the flea market out of that location.He suffered from MS and ran the place with his wife Mary Jane after he passed away (around 90 or 91) Mary Jane sold the 2500 York road property and then married Don Carver some time later.They lived happily for well over 20 years and I read last winter she passed away last February.

I last saw her in June of 2013 and she was in poor health.

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