Perry Hays’ Ten Mile Store, Ten Mile, MO

Perry Hays’ Ten Mile Store and Filling Station; junction of Macon County Roads DD and K north of US Highway 36; Ten Mile, Missouri; 1977.  Photo courtesy of the Macon Public Library       Haye’s 10 Mile, May 2017             Perry Hays’ 10 Mile store, unknown date  

Bevier Junction, Bevier, MO

Sinclair, Shell and Diamond Service Stations, US Highway 36 near the Bevier junction of Missouri State Highways C and O, looking east, unused postcard photo, Bevier, Missouri, circa 1930s.  From left to right is the Sinclair Service Station on the north side of the highway, the Palastino Shell Station and the Diamond Service Station on […]

Newburg General Store, Newburg, MO

Newburg General Store and Sinclair Filling Station, 1955.  The Sinclair HC gas pump appears to be a Bennett 76 manufactured in the 1930s. The Newburg community was six miles west of LaPlata and once called Polkville.  There is also a town named Newburg in Phelps County, Missouri. Photo courtesy of Danette Miller.

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.