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Community shocked after piece of history stolen from OKC coffee shop Share Updated: 6:16 PM CDT May 1, 2021 KOCO Staff Share Updated: 6:16 PM CDT May 1, 2021
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Show Transcript RICHARDS. IT’S KOCO 5 NEWS MECHA BACK TO YOU DYLAN. THANK YOU. YOU HISTORY RIPPED FROM THE GROUND THE OWNER AND THE COMMUNITY SHOCKED. YOU PROBABLY RECOGNIZED THIS STAPLE. IT’S A 1930 TEXACO GAS PUMP. IT WAS STOLEN LAST NIGHT ON BRITAIN AND WESTERN IT WAS THE MARQUEE USED BY THE BREW BROTHERS COFFEE SHOP. THE COMMUNITY HAS BEEN WORKING TO RESTORE THE AREA AND TONIGHT. THE OWNER IS JUST TO GET THAT PUMP BACK. WHICH IS THE COFFEE SHOP AND WE JUST A FORTUNATE THAT WE HAVE, YOU KNOW SOME HISTORICAL VALUE PEOPLE WHO ARE TRAVELING ALONG ROUTE 66 WOULD COME TO SEE SOMETHING LIKE THAT. YOU KNOW, WE DON’T MAKE A LOT OF MONEY HERE, BUT THERE ARE THINGS THAT IN THE COMMUNITY THAT ARE IN THIS COMMUNITY THAT MAKE THIS COMMUNITY A LITTLE MORE ATTRACTIVE AN
Sometimes, things just seem to come together, even if it s later than expected.
Lisa McPherson, her husband Mark McPherson and their family thought things were all coming together in 2018 when they decided Lisa should follow her lifelong dream to open a retail store of her own.
They found a building within Chickasha’s central business district that once had been a furniture store as a good spot to locate her gifts and home goods business, Perrefitte.
It took some time for them to acquire the 8,000 square-foot property located on the east side of South 4th Street, the town’s main north-south route. And it took some more time to meet renovation standards required by their use of historic tax credits along with other sources of financing (including city grant funds) to restore the building to usability.