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| Date: | 09 30 1933 |
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| Description: | Gas station in a Trachte building on the corner of Highway 51 (Monona Drive) and Highway 30 (Cottage Grove Road). A "Johnson Winged 70 Gasoline" pump is in... |
| Date: | 10 11 1930 |
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| Description: | The Riley-Bremer-Riley Oldsmobile garage on E. Doty Street began as the Riley Livery Stable when horse-drawn transportation reigned and then transitioned t... |
| Date: | 04 23 1935 |
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| Description: | Diamond Service Station, 118 King Street (Mid-Continent Petroleum Corp.), looking up King Street toward the Wisconsin State Capitol, with a partial view of... |
| Date: | 10 13 1963 |
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| Description: | Gasoline station, with Standard Oil Products and Champion signs, in old false front building. |
| Date: | 05 09 1937 |
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| Description: | Two men service an automobile at Lewis D-X Diamond Service Station, 118 King Street at S. Webster Street, with the Wisconsin State Capitol visible in the b... |
| Date: | 02 12 1934 |
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| Description: | Two men stand with the Capitol Oil Corporation display at the Madison Auto Show. The exhibit features "Tiolene Motor Oil," "Bowes Seal Fast," "Purol-Pep g... |
| Date: | 08 29 1932 |
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| Description: | Giles Hanson seated in his racing car in front of a gas station with Purol Pep gas pumps. |
| Date: | 08 27 1929 |
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| Description: | Conklin and Sons oil station at 655 W. Washington Avenue. A billboard on the side of building says "Sinclair HC Gasoline Stops Knocks." Next door on the le... |
| Date: | 08 06 1929 |
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| Description: | Texas Company U.S.A. (Texaco) office building and storage tanks bulk plant, 919 E. Main Street. Text on print reads: "Texas Company, Capitol Oil Co." |
| Date: | 08 03 1929 |
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| Description: | Texaco service station, located at 448 South Park Street at the corner of Drake Street. Text on back of print reads: "Capitol Oil Co. - 448 S. Park St.? Ba... |
| Date: | 08 11 1945 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of Dane County Oil Company, 1854 South Park Street, following an explosion of an anti-freeze can which killed one person and injured five. |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | A man drives an International Model F (or 31) motor truck away from the Red Crown Gasoline auto-filling station. The truck was operated by Standard Oil and... |
| Date: | 11 12 1925 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the Colfax Co. Implement Company with a pump for Red Crown gasoline in front of it. An automobile is emerging from the garage and a tract... |
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| Description: | A man and woman standing in front of Bellinger's Grocery store and gas station. |
| Date: | 1928 |
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| Description: | Man pumps gas into an automobile at the Consolidated Boat Co. There is advertising for Coca-Cola, Baby Ruth, and Occident Flour on the side of the small fr... |
| Date: | 05 10 1926 |
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| Description: | An International truck used by the Saginaw Oil Company parked in front of a Texaco filling station. |
| Date: | 2008 |
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| Description: | The 400 Cass Street gas station was first constructed in 1928 and later became a Pure Oil station, when it was reopened by Henry Ott, in 1937. |
| Date: | 2008 |
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| Description: | This service station, located at 301 South Bridge Street, was built in Manawa during the late 1930s as new, more efficient station designs were constructed... |
| Date: | 2008 |
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| Description: | Advertisement for the Parman Brothers Super Service Station grand opening featuring their dad and the station he built. |
| Date: | 2008 |
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| Description: | This beautiful 1940s calendar hangs on the wall at Monty's Blue Plate Diner. |
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