LeGrand, IA: Gas Station with Glass Cylinder Pumps

(Satellite, somewhere along Main Street, which was on the Lincoln Highway back then.)

Note sign shows just 17 cents and they haven't invented the ".9" game yet. But my main reason for noting this photo is the illustration of how important the "good roads" movement was back in the 1920s. This early station existed because it was on the Lincoln Highway. But, even though it was on the Lincoln Highway, it had yet to be paved. So you can be sure that none of the other roads in the area were paved. The Lincoln Highway was dedicated on Oct 31, 1913, as the first coast-to-coast paved highway. [Dennis DeBruler]

Charles Martel posted
Gas Station, Grocery, Post Office, Legrand, Iowa.

Nancy Johnson Sturgill: Spare tire on rear of ca

Bill Rohr posted

1980/80 Gilman Quad @ 24,000