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| Description: | Edward and Walter Biegick started with a tire-repair shop in 1918 and went on to operate a service station and large automobile dealership in downtown Berl... |
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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... |
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| Description: | Gray Czeskleba ran a hardware store at 206 West Fulton Street in Waupaca before turning exclusively to gasoline and oil distribution in 1925. |
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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: | Herman Hanson built this small rectangular brick station before the spring of 1928. Motorists would have known from the bright red tile roof that this litt... |
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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... |
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| Description: | Welcoming future customers to their new station, Carl Miller and Joe Walloch held a grand-opening in August 1940. The special: seven gallons of Pennant gas... |
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| Description: | Close-up of Coca-Cola sign, hanging above the front door of the now Tully Realty Office. |
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| Description: | The simple, abstract, geometric ornament was easily and inexpensively cast in concrete block faces. |
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| Description: | A red and winged horse weather vane sits atop the Mobil station. |
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| Description: | The windmill structure continues to attract travelers, but not for gasoline or bait, but for ice cream. |
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| Description: | Built in the early 1920s, the station, with its tower, low rooflines, and decorative half-timbering, complemented the designs of the other resort buildings... |
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| Description: | Constructed of a cream-colored brick, the vertical lines were embellished with blue glazed brick, likely meant to match the color of the Dixie Oil and Gaso... |
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| Description: | Advertisement for the Parman Brothers Super Service Station grand opening featuring their dad and the station he built. |
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| Description: | Interior view of Monty's Blue Plate Diner. |
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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: | Robert Broetzman's tribute to the history of gasoline. |
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| Description: | Elevated view of University Square shopping mall between West Johnson Street and University Avenue. (Demolished June 2006). Photograph taken from Witte Hal... |
| Date: | 2009 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of Copeland Opera House from across street. |
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