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General Store

Date: 1928
Description: A general store and gas station with a car parked in front.
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East Doty Street

Date: 05 17 1945
Description: 100 block of East Doty Street, showing the Fess Hotel, 119-123; Municipal Parking Station, 115; Kentzler building, 109; and Endres Tiedeman Mobil gas stati...
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Post Office

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Description: View down road toward the post office and gas station. A woman stands in front of the doorway, a young boy stands with a bicycle next to the gas pump, and ...
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Post Office

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Description: Exterior of a shingled post office/gas station with cars parked in front near the gas pumps. Sign in front reads "Socony" and a man wearing a white apron a...
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Cedarburg Service Station

Date: 2008
Description: Alexander C. Eschweiler, a well-known architect in Milwaukee, designed this exotic station for the Wadhams Oil and Grease Company of Milwaukee in 1926.
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West Allis Service Station

Date: 2008
Description: Built in 1927, this small Wadhams station, located at 1647 South Seventy-sixth Street, is one of a handful of the company's signature pagoda stations still...
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Minocqua Service Station

Date: 2008
Description: According to the Minocqua Times, work on this yellow-glazed brick station, which stands at 329 Front Street, began in late 1931.
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Westfiled Service Station

Date: 2008
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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Milwaukee Service Station

Date: 2008
Description: In 2001 the former Copeland Service Station reopened as a coffee shop in Milwaukee's Sherman Park neighborhood. The restored building is located at 4924 We...
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Harold Smith Pumping Gas

Date: 04 03 1931
Description: Harold Smith, a University of Wisconsin football tackle, is working his way through school by pumping gas at the Monroe Street Valvoline Oil service statio...
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Ashland Service Station

Date: 2008
Description: When the East End Co-op Service Station opened in 1940 at the corner of Sixth Avenue and East Front Street, the owners announced, "Our new, modern equipmen...
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Young Women at Gas Station

Date: 2008
Description: Two young women and an infant in a stroller posing for a picture at a gas station. One woma has her arm around the other woman.
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Burlington Service Station

Date: 2008
Description: Filling station built in 1927, at 148 West Chestnut Street, by Jack Hansen.
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Log Cabin Filling Station

Date: 1927
Description: Rustic, log cabin gas station in Chippewa Falls with a traveler's vehicle being filled with gasoline. It is not clear if the young woman in overalls is a p...
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Pennsylvania Oil Company Service Station

Date: 01 16 1927
Description: View across State Street toward cars lining up at Pennco filling (gas) station at the corner of State and Gorham Streets to get free crankcase draining and...
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Toots Station

Date: 1940
Description: Toots Sullivan (on left) and Emil Picha stand in front of the exterior of the Toot's Standard Gas Station at the intersection of Mill Street and Prairie Av...
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Drew's Tourist Home and Filling Station

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Description: The filling station and main office at Drew's Tourist Home. There are flags on the gas pumps. A man and his dog are standing next to the building.
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Gilmore Oil Company Truck

Date: 01 14 1938
Description: A man delivers gasoline to a Gilmore service station using an International D-40 truck. Gas pumps are in the background.
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El Paso Service Station

Date: 2008
Description: Knute Bjornson originally built this house in the 1860's and in 1933, his grandson Cooney Bjornson reassembled the humble log building to house a gas stati...
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Wisconsin River Bridge

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Description: Photographic postcard from hill looking down at the bridge over the Wisconsin River. A gas station is visible on the right. Text below reads: "Wisconsin Ri...

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