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Description: | This Art Moderne service station located at 202 North Cascade Street was built in 1947. With its dramatically curved facade, it undoubtedly grabbed the att... |
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Description: | Gus Savera built his service garage along Highway 77 in the mid-1940s. It was constructed out of cinder blocks and featured bright blue trim. |
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Description: | Since the 1930s, the busy corner on Michigan Street has been the site of a succession of gas stations that have continually evolved to reflect changes in t... |
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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... |
Date: | 2008 |
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Description: | Close-up of Coca-Cola sign, hanging above the front door of the now Tully Realty Office. |
Date: | 2008 |
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Description: | The simple, abstract, geometric ornament was easily and inexpensively cast in concrete block faces. |
Date: | 2008 |
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Description: | A red and winged horse weather vane sits atop the Mobil station. |
Date: | 2008 |
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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... |
Date: | 2008 |
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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... |
Date: | 2008 |
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Description: | Robert Broetzman's tribute to the history of gasoline. |
Date: | 08 2008 |
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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: | 2000 |
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Description: | Group portrait of the Historical Society's Board of Curators and management team. |
Date: | 2009 |
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Description: | Exterior view of Copeland Opera House from across street. |
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