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| Date: | 01 17 1927 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of cars lining up at Pennco filling (gas) station at the corner of State and Gorham Streets to get free crankcase draining and "Oak" Motor Oi... |
| Date: | 05 19 1930 |
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| Description: | Johnson Oil Refining Company billboard. "20 years of quality ... time tells!" Featuring Father Time holding an hourglass in the center of the logo for "Joh... |
| Date: | 05 19 1930 |
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| Description: | Johnson Oil Refining Company billboard. "Dependable refiners ... time tells!" Featuring 2 different logos for "Johnson Gasolene, Time Tells": the one on th... |
| Date: | 1979 |
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| Description: | Billboard urging Wisconsin motorists to obey the 55 miles per hour speed limit that is illustrated with a portrait of Ayatollah Khomeini, the spiritual lea... |
| Date: | 10 07 1925 |
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| Description: | An International truck used by the T.C. Power Motor Company parked along the side of the road near the sidewalk outside the company office. There is a gaso... |
| Date: | 2008 |
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| Description: | The 400 Cass Street gas station was first constructed in 1928 and later became a Pure Oil station, when it was reopened by Henry Ott, in 1937. |
| Date: | 2008 |
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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: | Next to a billboard, a road cuts through a field of petroleum derricks. |
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