Old Gas Stations...........Remember?

[Teresa]

Old Gas Stations...........Remember?

Once again... if you want to look at a picture longer.. then just run your mouse to the bottom of the picture and it will bring up the way to change your settings.

Enjoy....

[W. Gray]

I wish I had had the foresight to take photos of all the "old tyme" service stations on K-99 and in Howard.

I recall the station that stood where the Cox Community building is now.

After getting my license, I recall filling up at the old station that is now part of the museum complex. I remember talking to the owner who had only recently opened the station after it had been closed for awhile. Don't recall his name but he did not stay open very long.

I can remember people filling up at the station on Pine and Washington.

I think I can remember people filling up at the old station on Pine and Randolph across from the post office parking lot but I am not sure.

There were a bunch out on K-99.

[sixdogsmom]

This is neat! Thanks for sharing.

[Teresa]

Waldo.. wasn't it Millard Cox?
He is the one that owned the station when I was getting gas..

[W. Gray]

His name sounds familiar and I think someone on the forum might have pointed him out before as the last owner.

[Roma Jean Turner]

Love to see the old stations.  I had a white Thunderbird similar to the one in the 2nd picture.  Sure wish I had it now.

[frawin]

Roma Jean, I loved Hayward and Ferns Little Red Thunderbird, what a Classic that was.
Frank

[Marcia Moore]

Love those old pictures.  Thanks, Teresa.

[frawin]

Ray Wucherpfenig ran the Sovereign Service Station in the 40s and early 50s, where the Gragg Musem is now. Millard, "Shave" Cox took over in the mid to late 50s and ran it for years. When I first remember it it had the old pumps that you had to pump the gasoline to the top and then it siphoned  out. There was a station where the Post Office parking lot  is now and one across the street East from that one, neither of those were in business in the late 40s, there also had been one 4 blocks south of the Post Office, in the late 40s Frank Stewart tore it down and moved a house onto that lot and lived in it. As a kid I worked some in all 3 of the stations that were on the Highway.

[Ole Granny]

Roma Jean, I loved Hayward and Ferns Little Red Thunderbird, what a Classic that was.
Frank

I was lucky enough to live near Johnson's, three houses away.  What a thrill it was to watch Fern, with the top down, drive the pretty car. She was quite a lady!