Missouri, near Plano
Site of a Texaco Station, long since gone. Photographs by Marvin Van Wyck.
Dwight, Il.
Ambler’s Texaco. All images by Marvin Van Wyck See https://www.nps.gov/nr/travel/route66/amblers_texaco_gasstation_dwight.html
US 63 & Jackson & McKay, Macon, MO
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 be used as the Silver […]
100 Block Oak St., Macon, MO
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). A “Texaco presents Eddie Cantor” […]