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| Date: | 09 1929 |
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| Description: | View across field towards the Carbide & Carbon Chemicals Co. Pyrofax plant under construction, 130 Fair Oaks Avenue, almost finished. |
| Date: | 09 1929 |
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| Description: | View across field towards the Carbide & Carbon Chemicals Co. Pyrofax plant under construction, 130 Fair Oaks Avenue, almost finished. |
| Date: | 08 1930 |
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| Description: | View from road of the landscaping in front of a Texaco gas station located on 83rd and Stoney Island. |
| Date: | 2008 |
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| Description: | Located at 402 South Main Street, Henry E. Kochenderfer's service station, which opened in 1933, proudly dispensed Phillips 66 gasoline from three pumps o... |
| 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. |
| Date: | 2008 |
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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... |
| Date: | 2008 |
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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... |
| Date: | 2008 |
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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... |
| Date: | 2008 |
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| Description: | Robert Broetzman's tribute to the history of gasoline. |
| Date: | 1934 |
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| Description: | A man in a work uniform and hat is placing a wooden tray of tools into the back of an International pickup truck. The truck is parked along the side of a r... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | A stone house with a small front porch and balcony stands beside another stone building on the left. There are milk cans and chickens in front of the house... |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | Exterior view from road of a log building with a sign reading: "Showers' Store." Automobiles are parked outside and a Shell filling pump stands near the st... |
| Date: | 11 1980 |
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| Description: | Presumably the back side of a service station located at 2663 South Stoughton Road, south of McFarland. |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | View down dirt road of right side of Main Street. Banners strung across the street read "Chautauga." There is a pickup truck parked in the automotive repai... |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | View across road of a gas station and restaurant on Highway 61. There is a man in a pickup truck, and another man has his foot propped on the truck's step.... |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | View down unpaved road of a filling station. Along the side of the station on the left is a hand-pump, and a large tank lying on its side. Three buildings ... |
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