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This is a list of historic filling stations and service stations, including a few tire service stations which did not have gas pumps. Many of these in the United States are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
The station ultimately cost $20,000 – roughly four times the cost of the average filling station at the time. [2] The station opened in 1958 under Lindholm's name; it later became a Phillips 66 station. [3] Its construction was only a partial success for Wright, as his vision of the gas station as a social center never took hold. [4]
Pre-fabricated gas station, Culver City, California, US 1977 Filling station in Argos, Greece. A filling station (also known as a gas station or petrol station ) is a facility that sells fuel and engine lubricants for motor vehicles. The most common fuels sold are gasoline (or petrol) and diesel fuel.
The distinctive red-on-yellow Whiting Brothers signage and billboards date to 1926, the year U.S. Route 66 was designated across the southwestern United States.The father of the four Whiting brothers was a lumberyard owner, [6] leaving the family well placed to construct small, simple stations at little cost with one or two pumps and a six-foot-tall roadside billboard at various points on the ...
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The company bought eight Exxon stations in the Winston-Salem area. [3] In 2001, a joint venture began between A.T. Williams and Amerada Hess, and the company was rebranded as WilcoHess. [4] At the time, Williams had 120 gas stations and 21 travel centers, and had expanded to Pennsylvania and Alabama. Hess had supplied Williams for 35 years.
The land lies on the southwest side of the Livingston County town. O'Donnell's plan was to build a gas station that he could lease to his son. The project went ahead and the station was modeled after a 1916 Standard Oil of Ohio design. The station is of the house and canopy style and includes work bays which were clearly added at a later date.
The Sinclair Service Station was built by the Sinclair Oil Corporation in 1964. The gas station's roof design was based on the company logo, which was a Brontosaurus-like dinosaur. It is 47 feet tall and 110 feet long. [3] In 1967, Harold Hurst bought the station, after which it became Harold's Auto Center. [4]