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Shell Gas Station
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View across State Street towards the Shell Gas and Service Station. The four service doors are open, showing men working on cars. A sign above the gas pumps reads: "No Gas, Open for Repairs." Signs on the windows of the office on the right read: "'No' Gas;" "Radial's Belted's Conventional's;" and "'Low' Tire Prices."
1973
Garner, Bruce
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