Category:Lichtenwalners Furniture, Allentown, Pennsylvania

Founded by Norton Lichtenwalner who was an Allentown native and a 1905 graduate of Allentown High School. Lichtenwalner had started in business in New York City, then came to Allentown in 1915, buying out the estate of the J. M. Grimley furniture company, changing it to Lictenwalner Furniture.

He sold his furniture interests in 1921 to the Harold Furniture Company of Lancaster PA, owned by Henry W. Israel, expanded his chain of furniture stores in Eastern Pennsylvania (Reading, Lebanon and Philadelphia). Harold kept the Lichtenwalner name until October 1926 when it changed the name to Harolds. Harolds subsequently moved to the former Heinz Department Store at 808 Hamilton Street in May 1929.