About Rose Auto Service
Rose Auto Service is 9 bay auto repair facility located in Northeast Philadelphia. We currently have 4 automotive professionals to serve you and your vehicle. The facility is conveniently located near Cottman & Oxford Avenues 1 block from the Ryers train station. Our neighbor is Burholme First Aid Corp., an ambulance service that we have serviced since it's inception. We keep up to date with the latest equipment and training in the automotive industry.
Some History:
Rose Auto Service has been in business since 1922, we are Four generations strong. My Grandfather, Joseph Rose who later became known as "Pop" by everyone first started working on cars in the early 1900's at the automobile club of Philadelphia. Pop was a special mechanic, he was blind. He lost sight in his first eye at age 16 a while running in the woods. He started working at the automobile club of Philadelphia in his late teen age years. He lost sight in his other eye at the age of 22 while working on a car on Thanksgiving day in 1924.
Soon after he went into business for himself at "A" and the Boulevard where he worked for around 20 years with his sons, Norman, Brian and several other employees doing body and mechanical repairs. Around 1955 "POP" and his youngest son "Brian" opened Rose Auto Service at the present location on 822 Bleigh Avenue. Pop retired when he was 84 and was featured on channel 10 news as the "84 year old blind mechanic".
Brian has been working on cars since he was child, he was an expert auto mechanic and his specialty was collision repair. Brian worked as a Mechanic in the army during the Korean War, and retired when he Was 76 he still visits and helps out the shop frequently.
I am Joe Rose the third Generation in the business and have been working here since I was eight years old. My specialty is diagnostics and problem solving. I also run the day to day operations and serve as the face of Rose Auto Service to our customers. I enjoy interacting with our customers and helping to manage their vehicle concerns.
Let me introduce the other people at Rose Auto, my son Jimmy is the fourth generation and serves as a Service Writer and mechanic. John Witherspoon has been with us for over 20 years, he is married and loves to fix up muscle cars as a hobby- Particularly Chevrolet Camaros. The technicians at Rose Auto Service have over 80 years of combined experience fixing Foreign and domestic vehicles.