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A week ago Saturday, after hanging out in Wellsville, I went on to see what Baldwin City (pop. 3,400) was all about. Here’s a lovely Chamber of Commerce – in an old gas station building. Baldwin City is about 12 miles south of Lawrence in southern Douglas County. Just north of the Chamber building is [...]

gas stations, small towns

In Wellsville. A classic Phillips 66 cottage-style building. Now it’s a gas station and used car lot.

gas stations, small towns

A one-time gas station in Dunlap (pop. 82). Dunlap is in southeast Morris County. According to Wikipedia:  In 1878, Dunlap became the home to Benjamin “Pap” Singleton‘s second Singleton Colony, an African-American colony from Tennessee. In the early 1880s, the Presbyterian Church founded the Freedmen’s Academy in Dunlap to provide an education to African American [...]

gas stations, small towns

A classic old gas station, still in use. Cottonwood Falls.

gas stations, small towns

I had a pleasant trip to Matfield Green (pop. 62) yesterday. I interviewed someone and did a little photography around Chase County. Old gas station – Matfield Green.

gas stations, small towns

Here’s a classic gas station, still used as a gas station. I was too shy to stop, but I wanted to take a photo of a guy, probably a customer, standing on the other side of the truck. He had this great, long yellowish beard, very ZZTop-ish. And a former old gas station and garage, [...]

gas stations, small towns

An old gas station, used as a business of some kind in downtown Alma. An 1887 stone building. And I don’t know when the Native Stone Scenic Byway was established, but Saturday was the first time I noticed the signs for the 48-mile route. The Byways website mentions that 98 percent of the buildings in [...]

buildings, gas stations, small towns

An old gas station in Haviland.

gas stations, small towns

An old gas station – and matching truck. How ’bout a Corvair? It’s for sale.

gas stations, small towns

I know, I’ve posted a photo of this before – the old Skelly station (in an old Phillips 66 building?) on the south edge of Lebo, along old highway 50. Shadows on the Lebo elevator. I pulled over so Dave could take pictures of this – and he did. Then, down the road a piece, [...]

gas stations, small towns

On the return trip from Topeka yesterday, we drove the back roads – county roads and state highways. This is Beany’s Gas Depot in Auburn. When we left Emporia, S&S had gas at $2.89. The Emporia Service Area on the turnpike sold gas at $2.94 and it was that or higher in Topeka. We stopped [...]

gas stations, life on the ground