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Jack
Powell, Jr. - President
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Jack
Powell, Sr., began his automobile career as a Dodge
dealer in Dearborn, Michigan in 1933 as the owner of
Jack Powell Motors. After 19 years there, the Powell
family moved to California where in 1958 Jack Sr. opened
Jack Powell DeSoto-Plymouth at 4th and Escondido Boulevard
in Escondido.
1971
was the year that Jack Powell, Jr. entered the family
business. A graduate of the University of Southern California
and of the Chrysler Dealer Candidate School, Jack gradually
learned the business from each department's entry position.
By 1976 the senior Powell had fully retired, Jack Jr.
had purchased the business from his father, and Jack
Powell Chrysler- Plymouth had weathered the Arab Oil
Embargo. In 1982, an opportunity opened for Jack to
buy the competing Dodge dealership. |
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this era, all of the auto dealerships in Escondido were
scattered around the downtown area of Escondido. With
an eye to the future, Jack Powell, Jr. and four other
dealers purchased the land and developed what was to
become the Escondido Auto Park. The five flagpoles at
each entrance of the Auto Park are symbolic of the five
dealers who dedicated their futures to this project.
Visitors notice that two of the flags are red for those
dealers who passed away during the development of the
Auto Park. It was 1987 when Jack Powell merged the two
downtown dealerships and moved into the Escondido Auto
Park.
Jack
Powell Chrysler Dodge is a major contributor to many
local and national charities and a member of various
local, state and national associations dedicated to
the automobile industry. Spanning two generations of
ownership, we are constantly striving for continuous
improvement in all of the areas of this dealership.
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