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| Date: | 2008 |
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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: | 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... |
| Date: | 2008 |
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| Description: | Robert Broetzman's tribute to the history of gasoline. |
| Date: | 07 05 1938 |
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| Description: | An International P-20 power unit powers an oil pump owned by the Rajo Oil Corporation. A building is in the background. |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | An International P-20 power unit is used to power an oil well owned by the Overton Refining Company. |
| Date: | 11 10 1937 |
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| Description: | Two men work at an oil well site powered by an International Model P-30 power unit mounted on a truck. |
| Date: | 1937 |
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| Description: | Two men wearing white hats stand near a drilling rig on which two International PA-50 power units are compounded. The machine on the right has a sign readi... |
| Date: | 06 13 1925 |
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| Description: | International heavy duty truck (possibly a model 103) loaded with coal outside the Shera Coil and Oil Company building. In the background is a bridge and ... |
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| Description: | Reiss Oil Company yard, with large tank, at the end of East Water Street. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Boats unloading at Standard Oil Co.'s pier, with a horse, wagon, and a number of men handling lumber and other building materials. |
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| Description: | Next to a billboard, a road cuts through a field of petroleum derricks. |
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| Description: | A petroleum well located in Clay City, where oil was discovered in 1936. |
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