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Satellite)
Because of the
old Phillips 66 station in Baxter Springs, KS, this photo tripped by "twice in two days" rule.
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Terry Wisel Heintz posted, cropped
Regina Lease: Oh wow is that the station that was located on the corner of us 27 and Bellfountaine rd. Where the Marathon station is now.
Ed Miller Sr.: Remember this one well, it was beside the Martin I was talking about earlier, and across the street from it was a Standard station,west a few hundred feet was a Shell station on the south side as you went into P Lake |
Even the current station has a rather old design because it still has just one pump island. The service bay has been turned into a convenience store. And they got rid of the maintenance headache of flat roofs.
Ed's comment reminded me that before satellite based credit card billing became possible, it was not unusual to have three filling stations at an intersection. If I remember correctly,
Ogden and Main in Downers Grove, used to have three stations when we moved to this town in 1976. And the
Speedway a couple of blocks to the East was an old fashioned Citgo before we moved here. Of course cars in the 1960s needed about twice as much gas per mile as they do today and a lot more repairs.
It appears that Ogden & Main used to have stations in all four quadrants because I know the southwest quadrant got a Standard Oil station. The east/west road is Ogden and the north/south road on the left is Main.
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