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Valvoline Service Station
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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 "the house with a canopy" style gasoline station built during the 1920s. It consisted of a room for the attendant, bathrooms, and the gasoline pumps, with no service bays.
August 22, 1935
McVicar, Angus Boyd, 1903-1964
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