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This is a neat old photo of an abandoned gasoline station on Route 66, between Newkirk and Tucumcari, New Mexico that was bypassed by the interstate in 1970. This small gas station must have closed a few years earlier when the interstate was completed and their business dried up. The photo was taken in April 1986 by William J. Lucas,

This photo is courtesy of the University of New Mexico and Gary Gholson at the Tucumcari and Quay County Then and Now Photos

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GON said:
This is a neat old photo of an abandoned gasoline station on Route 66, between Newkirk and Tucumcari, New Mexico that was bypassed by the interstate in 1970. This small gas station must have closed a few years earlier when the interstate was completed and their business dried up. The photo was taken in April 1986 by William J. Lucas,

This photo is courtesy of the University of New Mexico and Gary Gholson at the Tucumcari and Quay County Then and Now Photos

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I absolutely love nostalgia and imagining people going about their daily routine at these places. Neighborhoods in now run down cities used to be bustling with children playing and adults back and forth to work. A reason that we are members of Greenfield Village/Henry Ford Museum.

A recent find: even Gary Indiana has Thomas Edison Concrete Concept Houses still standing - entire house built in one concrete pour: https://www.indianalandmarks.org/2016/06/set-in-concrete-edison-concept-houses/
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A few years ago i grabbed about 60 qts of various clearnance oils from AZ, mostly M1EP and the castrol green bottle syn magnatech. A few months later I posted it on CL to be sold at cost; no one budged; until a guy wanted to buy all of it; we met and he indicated he drives as a courier.

Yesterday he hits me up on txting asking if I had any more available; i told him most of the clearance deals have dried up. I asked what he is driving and he indicated the same 96 accord. I guess he hadn't heard that 20 weight doesn't make your engine last (j/k)

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GON said:
This is a neat old photo of an abandoned gasoline station on Route 66, between Newkirk and Tucumcari, New Mexico that was bypassed by the interstate in 1970. This small gas station must have closed a few years earlier when the interstate was completed and their business dried up. The photo was taken in April 1986 by William J. Lucas,

This photo is courtesy of the University of New Mexico and Gary Gholson at the Tucumcari and Quay County Then and Now Photos

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Lots of spots like that are still there.

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Took that one in Holbrook earlier this year when driving my 85 190D back home.

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Dog n Suds began in 1953 in Champaign, Illinois when Don Hamacher and Jim Griggs, two music teachers from the University of Illinois, opened a hot dog and root beer stand.

After early success in central Illinois, the chain grew rapidly throughout the 1950s and 1960s, and a training center was established in Champaign, named "Rover College" after the dog on the restaurant signage. At its peak in 1968, the chain had about 650 restaurants across 38 states.

Griggs sold his interest in the business in the early 1970s. Later owners abandoned the franchise business and sold the rights to make Dog n Suds branded root beer to another company. The chain's root beer is billed as "The World's Creamiest Root Beer", and is also sold in bottles in vending machines, retail, and online.
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GON said:
Dog n Suds began in 1953 in Champaign, Illinois when Don Hamacher and Jim Griggs, two music teachers from the University of Illinois, opened a hot dog and root beer stand.

After early success in central Illinois, the chain grew rapidly throughout the 1950s and 1960s, and a training center was established in Champaign, named "Rover College" after the dog on the restaurant signage. At its peak in 1968, the chain had about 650 restaurants across 38 states.

Griggs sold his interest in the business in the early 1970s. Later owners abandoned the franchise business and sold the rights to make Dog n Suds branded root beer to another company. The chain's root beer is billed as "The World's Creamiest Root Beer", and is also sold in bottles in vending machines, retail, and online.
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When my wife was a teenager, she worked at the Dog & Suds in Newman, IL.

The Raley's grocery store here in Tracy has Dog & Suds root beer in bottles.
 
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