Found a cool old pic!

[stevo5671]

I have not had a chance to go to the museum yet to look for a picture of the old gas station. As far as Aunt Libby's house goes, I was thinking that the house may have been changed somewhat so that's why I thought I might have hit paydirt with this. When I got home and looked at your pic, the chimney was in the wrong place. There are maybe 50 houses as possible targets and I checked out 3/4 of them yesterday. It has to be just a block or two further south.

[kurtruk]

What about Google Earth? Might shorten your quest.

[stevo5671]

What about Google Earth? Might shorten your quest.

I actually tried that already...the coverage in that area is not complete.

[stevo5671]

Hey Bob (and anyone else who is interested),

I was able to find this pic of my grandpa's gas station from 1965 after it had been sold to Montgomery Ward and turned into a service center for them. This picture was actually taken on March 31, 1965 as the PW Way auto dealership located directly behind the gas station was burning to the ground. Not sure what they sold but I have heard stories of the building going up with brand new cars inside (I wasn't around till 1971). If I can't find any older photos, at least I know what the place looked like now.

[BobPalma]

Cool, Steve. Geeze, it looks fortunate that the fire didn't get to what might have remained of the vents for the underground tanks probably still in the ground when Montgomery Ward was operating the facility! Yipes! BP