Franklin, Indiana: Big John: Former World's Largest Rocking Chair
A furniture store went big with a towering chest of drawers and an equally scaled giant rocking chair. The drawers burnt in around 2013, but the chair rocks on.
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Advertisement for family owned furniture consignment store. The chest was built at the entrance to the store. "Home of the World's Largest Rocking Chair" sits close by on the same property.
[Beth, 04/01/2005]World's Largest Rocking Chair
They claim to have the World's Largest Rocking Chair in Amity, Indiana at the Long's Consignment Furniture store. They also have a very large dresser at the front of the store (at its the base are the front doors).
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Big John: Former World's Largest Rocking Chair
Long's Furniture World
- Address:
- 4108 US-31 S., Franklin, IN
- Directions:
- From Indianapolis take I-65 south to the Franklin exit. Follow Hwy 44 to US Hwy 31 and drive south, about eight miles, to the town of Amity. A couple of miles from the Amity sign is Long's Furniture World and the rocking chair on the right (just south of CR 400 S.).
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May 2006: The "World's Largest Rocking Chair" claim, according to J. D. Long, is now backed officially by the Guinness Book (Claim #118533). The chair is named "Big John."