Missouri, near Plano
Site of a Texaco Station, long since gone. Photographs by Marvin Van Wyck.
Site of a Texaco Station, long since gone. Photographs by Marvin Van Wyck.
Ambler’s Texaco. All images by Marvin Van Wyck See https://www.nps.gov/nr/travel/route66/amblers_texaco_gasstation_dwight.html
Fower’s Texaco Station (later to become Fower’s Silver Dome Texaco Station and Café); intersection of US Highway 63, Jackson and McKay Streets; circa 1940s. Charlie Fower purchased the Cook observatory (shown below) in 1935, moved it to this intersection as an addition to his service station, and renovated it to …
Charlie Fower’s Service Station, 100 block of Oak Street, looking northwest, 1937. The station is advertising exclusively Texaco products and has curb-side pumps. A sticker on the truck’s bumper announces the August 26-29 Macon County Centennial celebration. Three boys are looking at Charlie’s trained monkey (between the two left-most pumps). …