My Grandad died before I was born in 1960. I knew he had a Phillips 66 Station in Hiawatha, KS. I knew it was right next to the house too. I just recently found out he had another one 2 blocks away. I remember seeing pictures of his Oldsmobile, never knew the year. Cleaning out Mom and Dads house we came across some things and pictures that I have never seen. I am posting these items and will have some photos of the actual Station and stuff later. There is a 10 year span of tax records and lease agreements with Phillips which are cool to look at, but are boring. This is a 1947 receipt for 18 hours labor @ $1.25 hr Also a Name tag showing a celebration for Frank Phillios
A Phillips rep card and a gas ration card for the 1940 Olds 4 door, dated 1942. I found several gas ration stamps and registration cards and food ration stamps too.
This is cool stuff, not boring at all. Takes you back to the days when trust was still in a handshake
I live here in Norman OK... My family visits Hiawatha KS all the time since my Mother in law lives there... She live in one of the houses in the Visit Hiawatha brochure. I would love to see which of the old gas stations your Grandpa owned and show it to my kids....Small world FrankBoss
My Grandparents phone number when they first got it was 37 a year or so later it was 337 and a few years later it was 4337 I can remember when they add the prefix and area codes Ok I was real little and it was funny to listen to the adults make such a fuss.
Cedartown GA still had some one, two, and three digit phone numbers and an operator who came on and said "Number, please" up until 1961 when they went to the seven digit plus area code format. Phone number for Moore's Drug Store was 4.
Even if it looks boring to you, keep posting it up here. Most of us eat this kind of stuff up! Thanks for taking the time!
Not boring to me. I get through there every once in awhile. I was a FINA WITH FLASH GUY. "AND THE BOWTIE ROLLS ON"
Very cool! I love our 66 stations areound here. They are the only ones without "corn mashin's" added in.
Keep it comming vettes2. When I was out of HS I worked at a 66 station in Wichita, KS, that was one of the first, maybe the first one. Not sure what it is now. Great history, great pictures. What a change 64 years makes. In 1947 the US population was 144,126,031. A stamp was .03, and unemployment was around 3%
These are other stations around Hiawatha, KS Bottom left says New Super Shell. The neat Red Ball truck on right.
Not sure who it is, standing next to a Butler gas pump. The car is in front of same pump, guy putting water in radiator it looks like.
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