Commerce, OK: Marathon/Tydiol & Original Dairy King and Conoco Gas Stations

Marathon: (Satellite)

Conoco: (Satellite)

US-66 Overview 

The pumps say Marathon. The logo has a runner with MARATHON and "MILE-maker."

Street View, Sep 2024

This station is across Main Street from the Dairy King.

Street View, Jun 2013

唐受衡, Sep 2025

This may be the interior of the Conoco station because the Dairy King has 1950s style tables and benches on the inside.  I've seen a few horizontal Coca-Cola bottle dispensers, but that is the first 7up dispenser that I have seen.

Paolo Santi, Sep 2019

They spiffed up the place for the 100th Anniversary of Route 66.

Buck Nekked, Jun 2025

Route 66 Postcards posted three images with the comment:

Here is a "then, later, & now" of the Broyles Tydol filling station & Dairy King in Commerce, Oklahoma on old Route 66 at 100 N Main St.  Later it was a Marathon station & rock shop, and now is the Dairy King,  It is a excellent example of a building that has been restored and converted to a new purpose while preserving its historical Route 66 vintage appearance.  Mickey Mantle grew up in Commerce.  His childhood home is just a few blocks away from the Dairy King.

   The "later" postcard is courtesy of Steve Rider, and the "now" photo is courtesy of Eldon McGraw.

Vernon Cole: Also the site of Bonnie and Clydes last murder.

Steve Patterson: My mother-in-law Ruth Broyles McCord, now 98 years young just told me that three Broyles brothers ran the station together. Her father Jessie Broyles, and his brothers Landon and Loren were the original owners. I was not aware that they also sold ice cream as the original Dairy King.

By the way, if you want a great cheeseburger stop in the current Dairy King. If you’re traveling Route 66, sign their guestbook along with people from many countries around the world. The DuBois family will treat you right. Bring cash!

Gene Williams: Commerce was the home of the great baseball player Mickey Mantle.

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Mickey Mantle's Childhood Home

Street View, Sep 2024

This is the oldest detailed topo map I could find and they had already moved Route 66 from the west side to the east side of town. I wondered how they could afford to do that because normally the downtown would have grown up along Route 66. But in this town the downtown is along the east/west Commerce Ave. The Northeast Oklahoma Railroad was absorbed by Frisco.

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