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Old gas stations

BobHufford

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Built in Springfield, Missouri in 1929 as a flour and feed store on Route 66, it shortly transformed into the Queen City Oil station. In 1939 that section of Route 66 was raised skyward with the construction of the Glenstone Viaduct. In 1946 they moved six blocks north on Route 66. That building was demolished in the 1970s to make way for a restaurant.

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The original pavement of Route 66 it still under the viaduct.

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David Conwill

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Architectural question for the petrolianophiles here.

This station, recently rebranded as a Valero, has been in Bennington since at least the early sixties, when it was a Texaco. I don't have a copy handy, but there's a great photo of it from about 1962 with a '32 Ford coupe race car on a trailer out front.

It's not the typical Teague icebox, though, so maybe it was something else first? Or is an icebox that was customized to fit the urban lot?

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David Conwill

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David Conwill said:
Here we go. You can't see much of the station, but I assure you it's the same location: Elm at South Street, Bennington, VT. This is the fall of 1965, so later than I thought when I posted yesterday. View attachment 809208
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I just discovered a mid-1940s shot of the corner lot with nothing there at all, so it appears the station is newer than I first thought! Post-WWII, in any case.
 
LizzieMaine

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It looks like it was "top hatted" at some point in the 60s or early 70s -- it was the way the modernized old stations by stripping or covering the porcelain siding with fake batten-board or stone siding and adding a fake mansard roof. We had a beautiful icebox Gulf where I was living at the time that lasted almost thru the 80s before the harpies of the Garden Club finally convinced the owner to brown the place up.
 
David Conwill

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LizzieMaine said:
It looks like it was "top hatted" at some point in the 60s or early 70s -- it was the way the modernized old stations by stripping or covering the porcelain siding with fake batten-board or stone siding and adding a fake mansard roof. We had a beautiful icebox Gulf where I was living at the time that lasted almost thru the 80s before the harpies of the Garden Club finally convinced the owner to brown the place up.
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That's exactly what I was thinking and the reason why I was trying to establish when it was built and what it might have looked like originally.
 

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