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| Date: | 09 26 1954 |
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| Description: | Two men stand in front of a map of Madison with a document for Oil Week. |
| Date: | 05 02 1934 |
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| Description: | Fiore Coal & Oil Company exhibit at Madison Home Show featuring oil burners and Lee tires. |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | A serviceman checks the oil of a car at the Madison Co-op Station. During the 1930s the cooperative movement in Wisconsin expanded its rural base to offer ... |
| Date: | 08 07 1928 |
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| Description: | Robert Mitchell's Madison service station, 529 University Avenue. During the 1920s service stations evolved from curb-side shacks to more attractive buildi... |
| 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: | 01 31 1957 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Jack McCarron (left), Mae Boyd, Mrs. Irv Skoyen and Mrs. D.W. Kirner, employees of the Pure Oil Co. Madison office, are leaving the company or being t... |
| Date: | 01 31 1957 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of four of the twenty employees staying in Madison with the Pure Oil Co. They include, from left: Knowlton Levernick, H.C. Hoff, J.M. Beveri... |
| Date: | 01 31 1957 |
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| Description: | William E. Brobst, center, master of ceremonies, at a farewell dinner for 20 members of the Pure Oil Co. Madison office who are leaving the company or are ... |
| Date: | 08 22 1935 |
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| Description: | Two attendants and several automobiles at the Valvoline gasoline station located at 999 South Park Street in Madison. This station is a good example of "th... |
| Date: | 07 24 1930 |
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| Description: | The Texas Company Texaco motor oil booth at Engineers Convention. |
| Date: | 2008 |
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| Description: | Food not gas is now the fuel of choice at Monty's Blue Plate Diner in Madison. This former station once again serves as the lively neighborhood meeting pla... |
| 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: | 12 26 1930 |
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| Description: | Three Fiore Coal and Oil storage tanks. |
| Date: | 01 09 1939 |
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| Description: | Fiore Coal and Oil Company building, 620 W. Mifflin Street. |
| Date: | 04 03 1929 |
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| Description: | Back lot of the Capitol Oil Company, 919 E. Main Street. |
| Date: | 09 15 1949 |
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| Description: | Grady Fuel Company, 218 Corry Street, displays its Mobilheat truck for delivery of oil for home heating. |
| Date: | 2008 |
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| Description: | Located at 1129 South Park Street, this station was built in 1964 by Clark Oil Company at an estimated cost of less than twelve thousand dollars. |
| Date: | 2008 |
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| Description: | Built by Clayton "Clayt" Parman in 1941, the service station at 3502 Monroe Street looks almost identical to when it opened more than sixty-five years ago. |
| Date: | 2008 |
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| Description: | The Shell Oil Company built this service station at 950 South Park Street in 1963. This large single-story service station featured the operator's office a... |
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