It survived roughly 100 years. It weathered a range of obstacles, including the St. Patrick’s Day flood of 1936 and a lengthy closing after its founder died in 1979. Two decades later his grandson reopened the shop to its original glory.

Klavon’s Ice Cream Parlor, the beloved old-fashioned shop with its homemade cool treats, original revolving stools and marble countertops, is facing a sheriff’s sale on Dec. 1.

The property at 2801 Penn Ave. was purchased by Jack Hanchar and his family in 2013. But Hanchar also headed a toy robotics company, Digital Dream Labs, that ran into production troubles. The Pennsylvania Office of the Attorney General filed a lawsuit against Dream Labs last fall after the company failed to fulfill most of the 14,000 orders for its line of in-home companion robots

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