gas stations
Sitzman's sinclair
This station was in Lower Town, on the south side of Highway 4. The fourth house east of the bridge was modified to serve as an auto repair garage and an office for the filling station. The gas pumps came from Harold Reed's station up the road, next to the home occupied by Dale Goodenkauf over about 40 years, beginning in the mid-1960s. Larry Layden and others remember yet another station in lower town which was east of the Sitzman station, at the foot of the viaduct, south side.
Photo 6920 - Sherry, Sandy, and Sharla Sitzman and dog Peaches in front of the Sitzman Sinclair filling station. It ran from about 1961 to 1967. Sharla took a turn at running the filling station part, pumping gas & washing windshields, selling candy and pop. Photo shared by the Sitzman family.
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Bob & Becky Sitzman, with their Sinclair station in the background. They operated the station in the early-mid 19602. Photo 1013.
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BACK WHEN THERE WAS APPARENTLY JUST ONE:
"THE" table rock filling station
"Table Rock Filling Station," "service with a smile." Paul Diehm and Wes Baileys station. They came in 1926. Both were Johnson boys, Paul being a mechanic and Wes a barber. 1927 ad.
THE TABLE ROCK FILLING STATION
BECOMES KNOWN AS
TABLE ROCK OIL
1948
Diehm's filling station -- originally Table Rock Filling Station -- circa 1966
Table Rock Oil, 1973
table rock auto company
morse & deubelbeiss
1925 -- Table Rock Auto Company, proprietor J. P. Morse
1927, Morse of Table Rock Auto added a partner. The business became Morse & Deubelbeiss, proprietors.
the brace garage
The Brace Garage may have had a filling station. It was the predecessor of the Karas Garage, which was in a building built in 1901. There was a big fire at the building in 1930, when it was then the Brace Garage. The article about the fire refers to numerous cars that were inside the garage at the time of the fire and destroyed, and to gas tanks in front. 1930.
1930.
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Photo 3359, taken by Lou Fencl. He worked at the Burow Brothers filling station in the late 1920s & to the mid 1930s. This photo is not dated. That building could be the Brace Garage or it could be the later Karas Garage. Unfortunately, the front of the building cannot be made out well enough to see if there is a gas tank or two there. However, it is PROBABLY the Brace Garage, which was two stories all the way back. After the big fire, only the forward part, used as an apartment, was two stories. it is difficult to tell details, but it appears that there is a small window on the west side of the building that can be seen to the far left That window -- if it is a window -- does not exist on the present building, so would be part of the section that burned. In addition, photographs of the Karas Garage show a sign that says "Ford" in vertical lettering out front. It is not in this picture. What era is that truck parked next to it? If it is from 1932, then this could not be the Brace Garage....but...
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the two way inn
Gas at the Two Way Inn (later the Reno Inn). From a 1934 editiom of the Lincoln Star.
This photo is labeled as the Two Way Inn, and that was the original name of the building. Photo 3661.
the reno inn
As RUSSELL WORKMAN has pointed out, the Reno Inn also had gas pumps. And probably the same ones as at the Two Way Inn! Because they were the same building, just successive owners. We don't have a picture of the Reno with gas pumps, but here is the Reno in a photo from RONNIE GILBERT taken in 1957. There is no car in the picture nor a gas pump, but there is certainly a show of horse power..... The horse, by the way, was named Silver and belonged to the Gilberts
Photo 4020, the Reno Inn, probably in the 1950s, shared by Judy Aylor.
burow bros. filling station
1943 Burow Brothers Filling Station, manager Lewis Hubka. This ad is from a 1943 edition of the Echo, the Table Rock school paper.
Photo 3396, taken by Lou Fencls, 1930s
Photo 3348, taken by Lou Fencl, 1930s. (The small car was an Austin.)
rudy's service station
Rudy's Service Station, 1948
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reed's service station
Reed's Service Station. This 1952 ad is from the program of a community production called the All-Star Wedding.
Hubka service station
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1956
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Hubka Service Station, 1959
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home oil company
The Wrights were successors to the Burow Brothers at the brick gas station catty corner from the southeast corner of the Square.
1955, Home Oil, seasons greetings from Dale Wright, Frank Petrashek, and Harold Gottula.
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1952 ad from the program of the All-Star Wedding.
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the farmers co-op
The word is that there were gas pumps by the Farmers Union at one time. We don't have any tangible evidence in the form of a photograph or advertisement, but it seems likely.
Photo 4022, the Farmers Union in the 1950s.
the karas garage when it was on the south side of the hotel
Photo 4943, from a photo album donated by Ines Madden. It is not labeled as the Karas Garage nor is there a clue in the picture, but other than Karas -- and much later Reed -- we don't know of any other proprietor for a filling station in this building, which is long gone.
1927 -- "the best oils and gas"
DEN'S COUNTRY MEATS
Drop off your deer for processing, buy a soda, get some gas. Den Schaardt's station is on the east edge of town, on Highway 4.
Photo taken in May 2020 by Sharla Sitzman