Harold’s garage to close doors after 68 years of business
In 1948, just three years after World War II ended, Harold Haugen started a repair shop in Rockwell, Harold’s Garage, and 68 years later, his son Gary is closing it’s doors.
Harold came to Rockwell to work for a Kaiser and Frazer car dealership as a mechanic. After working there for a couple years, and after the car dealership went out of business, Harold opened up his own garage, buying a lot and building his shop on 3rd St in 1953.
“He poured and laid the cement floor in here himself, and there’s not a crack in it to this day,” said Gary Haugen. “It was quite a job, but that’s the way he did things.”
Gary grew up around the shop, becoming partners with his father during the ‘70s.
Read the full article in the October 27 edition of the papers.
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