Love Lake General Store, Love Lake, MO

Love Lake General Store and Filling Station, Love Lake, Missouri, 1955.  The visible gas pump seen is typical of those manufactured from 1918 until the early 1930s.  Love Lake was both a lake and an adjacent town five miles south of LaPlata named for James M. Love who founded the town in 1868 and erected […]

Marra’s General Store, Keota, MO

    Marra’s Grocery Store and Filling Station; Keota, Missouri; 1955. Photo courtesy of Danette Miller.             Horse-drawn Standard Oil Tanker Wagon, Keota, Missouri. Photo courtesy of the Macon County Historical Society.       Rotilio Zuccarini Store and Filling Station, Keota, Missouri, circa 1920.