The Next Page: G.C. Murphy Co. -- the lore of the store

Store No. 1: the Murphy's in McKeesport,
the headquarters city, in August 1985

Link to November 11 Pittsburgh Post-Gazette article.

Excerpt:
And so I started off on a project we originally thought would take two years, but stretched to three, and finally resulted in the publication this month of "For the Love of Murphy's: The Behind-the-Counter Story of a Great American Retailer" (Penn State University Press).

The title came to me in December 2005, after I drove to Mt. Pleasant to interview Wayne Potter, a former maintenance supervisor for Murphy's, and his wife Lil, a former clerk. We had a wonderful evening together, but some of the stories the Potters told were hair-raising.