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Name: Fill'er Up: The Glory Days of Wisconsin Gas Stations with Jim Draeger
Start: 2025-11-17
End: 2025-11-17
Location: New Berlin Public Library

Monday, November 17, 2025

6:30 pm

Event free & open to the public.

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New Berlin Public Library

15105 W Library Lane

New Berlin, WI 53151

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About the Event

The Wisconsin Historical Society Speakers Bureau offers an exciting opportunity for our historians, curators and authors to visit your community and share the stories of our great state.

Fill'er Up provides a glimpse into the glory days of gas stations, when full service and free oil changes were the rule and the local station was a gathering place for neighbors. More importantly, Fill'er Up links the past and the present, showing why gas stations should be preserved and envisioning what place these historic structures can have in the 21st century and beyond.

Jim Draeger worked in the field of historic preservation and architecture at the Wisconsin Historical Society for more than 20 years, most recently as the State Historic Preservation Officer. From roadside architecture to Northwoods resorts, Jim celebrates the importance of ordinary buildings to our daily lives through his research, writing, and lectures.