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| Date: | 2008 |
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| Description: | Located at 2089 Atwood Avenue, a former service station was successfully transformed into a diner — Monty's Blue Plate Diner. |
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| Description: | This contemporary station and convenience store was built in 2004 but harkens back to the early decades of the twentieth century when communities pressured... |
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| Description: | In the early 1920s, Prussian immigrant John Bosch constructed a simple, rectangular brick service garage with a canted corner at a prime location: the inte... |
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| Description: | The station at 480 East Main Street was built around 1939-1940. Despite having a string of owners, the building has experienced very little change in appea... |
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| Description: | Located at 100 South Jefferson Street, started out as a Phillips 66 service station, built in 1935. It is currently Uncle Harry's Frozen Custard. |
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| Description: | Built in 1927, this small Wadhams station, located at 1647 South Seventy-sixth Street, is one of a handful of the company's signature pagoda stations still... |
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| Description: | When the East End Co-op Service Station opened in 1940 at the corner of Sixth Avenue and East Front Street, the owners announced, "Our new, modern equipmen... |
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| Description: | When Phil Kilinski built this unique Dutch Mill gas station six miles north of Tomahawk in the mid 1940s, he created a whimsical attraction that successful... |
| Date: | 2008 |
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| Description: | Rudy Kuchlenz built this clapboard-sided building at the crossroads of U.S. Highway 8 and County Highway J in the village of Kennan, in 1927. |
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| Description: | Built in the 1920s by Fred Long, the station located at 9932 County Trunk Highway M served farmers from the surrounding area and housed a small general sto... |
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| Description: | Built sometime in the mid-1930s, this unique station, located at 118 Highway 35, visually illustrates its ongoing changes and success over time as it respo... |
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| Description: | Located at 627 Main Street, Theo Bertin built this small house-and-canopy station hoping to transform travelers driving north along old Highway 51 into cus... |
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| Description: | Located at 329 Front Street, this structure hosted its grand-opening celebration in 1931. The special was not discounted gasoline or oil but chicken and ba... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | A portrait of Frank King's neighbors posed around a bench outdoors on Flora Dell Lake. From left to right, an unidentified man is described as an undertake... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | View of Frank and Lillian Drew's cottage on Lake Flora Dell. Their daughter, Delia Drew King, is on the steps. "Home Again" is written along the right side... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | Delia Drew King sits on the porch of her family's cottage on Lake Flora Dell. "After Dinner" is written on the left. |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | View of the Drew family cottage on Lake Flora Dell. A caption of "The Cottage by the Sea" is to the left of the photograph, in addition to a decorative bor... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | Several women and one man wade in Lake Flora Dell. Delia Drew King is second from left, in a white straw hat. A hand-drawn caption beneath the photograph r... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | Delia Drew King wades in Lake Flora Dell. There is a hill and shoreline in the background, and a group of people stands near a pier behind Delia. A hand-dr... |
| Date: | 2008 |
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| Description: | Robert Broetzman's tribute to the history of gasoline. |
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