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| Date: | 2008 |
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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... |
| Date: | 2008 |
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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: | 07 28 1964 |
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| Description: | Kenneth King, center, was honored at a luncheon for his retirement as the executive secretary of the Wisconsin Petroleum Association. Past president Don Co... |
| Date: | 09 1951 |
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| Description: | An oil refinery at night illuminated by overhead lights. |
| Date: | 2008 |
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| Description: | Located at 109 North Center Avenue, this service station was built by Sylvester "Sal" Spangler. |
| Date: | 2008 |
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| Description: | This beautiful 1940s calendar hangs on the wall at Monty's Blue Plate Diner. |
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| Description: | Reiss Oil Company yard, with large tank, at the end of East Water Street. |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | A serviceman checks the oil of a car at the Madison Co-op Station. During the 1930s the cooperative movement in Wisconsin expanded its rural base to offer ... |
| 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. |
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| Description: | View across field towards the Superior Refinery, which operated under the name Murphy Oil Corporation at another time. |
| Date: | 2008 |
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| Description: | Manufactured by the Milwaukee Corrugating Company, Josiah Paynter's filling station at 110 South Chestnut Street was the first in Mineral Point. |
| Date: | 2008 |
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| Description: | Located at 2089 Atwood Avenue, a former service station was successfully transformed into a diner — Monty's Blue Plate Diner. |
| Date: | 2008 |
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| Description: | Located at 159 Pulaski Street, this house-style station featuring a hip-roof canopy, was built in 1925 by Vincent Zielinski. |
| Date: | 2008 |
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| Description: | Built in about 1933, this appealingly picturesque service station, located at 1305 Pierce Avenue, was designed to blend into the neighborhood. |
| Date: | 2008 |
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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. |
| 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: | Advertisement for the Parman Brothers Super Service Station grand opening featuring their dad and the station he built. |
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