CENTER TWP — While remaining damage to the building serves as testimony to the crash that took place there, Golden Dreams on Route 8 is now open for limited store hours.

Don and Shirley Chilcotte, owners of the precious metals and collectibles shop, said the store will be open from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. each Saturday and by appointment during the week until repairs are complete.

The couple still marvel at the crash that damaged much of their building on May 17, when police say a Toyota Tacoma driven by Phillip B. Mennor II, 41, of Butler, struck a concrete wall off Sunset Drive, went airborne, took out the roof of a shed owned by neighboring Window World, flipped over and crashed through the roof of the Golden Dreams building.

The truck landed upside down in the back of the store, which was the location of two bathrooms, an employee break room and part of the gift shop.

Mennor was taken to a Pittsburgh hospital. His current condition is unknown.

Don Chilcotte said Saturday a mirrored wall between the gift shop and the backroom was smashed, as was much of the merchandise stored in the backroom and some in the rear of the gift shop.

Three vintage pinball machines used by employees to unwind during a break were badly damaged or destroyed when the Tacoma dropped into the building.

A truck door is still suspended on the back wall, more than 10 feet off the floor.

Wires and duct work hang useless from the ceiling, glass litters the floor, and a corner beam in the rear of the building is significantly tilted.

The Chilcotts said a heater fastened high on the rear wall was pushed 25 feet.

“It probably went right along with the truck,” Don Chilcott said.

Lights hanging in a utility room on the other side of the building shattered and fell to the floor, and the long wall on the north side of the building is damaged from the impact.

“The insurance company said they never saw anything like this,” Don said.

FirstEnergy shut down the power to the building the night of the crash, and Pennsylvania American Water shut off water service, as water sprayed everywhere from damaged pipes.

He said a general contractor arrived at 7 a.m. the next day to erect a temporary roof.

“One of my customers called and said ‘Do you need an electrician?’” Don Chilcott said. “I said ‘Yes we do.’”

Scott Straynick, owner of Right Electric in Butler Township and a customer of Golden Dreams, dropped what he was doing and came to the store the next day with a crew of three.

The men worked to secure the building’s damaged electric lines so the power could be turned back on and the general contractor could work on the temporary roof.

“I know Don and Shirley personally,” Straynick said. “I was sure they needed assistance, and I was happy to give it to them.”

Straynick visited the store Saturday to see how far the cleanup has come and offer moral support to his friends.

“I saw the wreck on the news and I was like ‘Oh my God, that’s Don’s place!’” he recalled of the night of the crash.

Former Golden Dreams employee Mark Baptiste, of Center Township, also stopped in on Saturday to check on the Chilcotts, who are his friends of more than 40 years.

Baptiste said he was riding his e-bike along Sunset Drive to his job at Clearview Mall the morning after the crash.

“I saw this hole in the building,” he said. “I was like, uh-oh.”

He learned an upside-down truck was in the building when he arrived at work that day.

“He had to have been moving pretty fast to get a truck airborne,” Baptiste said. “They are not light.”

He said he is certain the Chilcotts will move on and the business will be back better than ever.

“They don’t sit around and dawdle,” Baptiste said. “I grew up with Don, and he was never a quitter.”

Shirley Chilcott said the couple’s phones and those of their grown daughters have been blowing up with words of encouragement and support from friends and customers, as well as offers to help.

“Everyone has been amazing,” she said.

Don Chilcott said as late as Friday, 3 feet of debris remained in the backroom where the truck crashed. On Saturday, only glass and small debris remained, but the customer section was spotless.

A smell that can only be an amalgam of vehicle fluids remained in the carpet in the employee break room.

“I’m just glad it didn’t happen when we were here,” Shirley Chilcott said, shuddering at the thought of the possible results.

Don Chilcott said he is working with the insurance company, which is being very helpful in the aftermath of the incident.

The next steps are finishing the cleanup, disposing of damaged merchandise, replacing the carpeting and working with engineers on a permanent roof and repairs to damaged sections of the building.

“They’ll come up with a game plan,” Don Chilcott said.

The Chilcotts started Golden Dreams in the former Butler Mall and ran the business there for more than 20 years. They moved to the current building, which is the former Family Drug, in 1998.