RoadDog's RoadLog Blog: Being my travels down those great two lane highways of this nation as well as news I learn about them from media sources. Since I'm also very interested in historic preservation, there will be a lot of that as well.
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Sunday, February 18, 2018
About That Gas Station at First Street and Lincoln Highway in DeKalb in 1917
From the May 3, 2017, MidWeek "Looking Back."
1917, 100 Years Ago.
"Work has commenced this morning on the erection of the new service station which the Standard Oil Company will install at the corner of First Street and Lincoln Highway in DeKalb next to the Chronicle building."
There was lots of coverage of the building of gas stations in the paper back in 1917 as the automobiles were well on their way to replacing horses as the main mode of transportation.
The Chronicle had a lot of coverage on this particular building, which still wasn't finished as the year of 1918 dawned.
--RoadDog
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