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Service Stations - Side Streets
Posted by:
Kchi
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Date: September 18, 2013 11:18AM
When I was growing up in the 60s, there was a old fashioned service station that no longer sold gas, but what seemed strange was that this service station was at the intersection of two side streets.
Does anybody remember any service stations that weren't on a major street?
Does anybody remember any service stations that weren't on a major street?
Re: Service Stations - Side Streets
Posted by:
Richard Stachowski
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Date: September 19, 2013 10:55AM
[b]43rd & marshfield the south east corner was there in the 50's. very small.[/b]
Re: Service Stations - Side Streets
Posted by:
Mornac
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Date: September 19, 2013 08:36PM
Kchi, you didn't say what intersection the one you knew was at.
Re: Service Stations - Side Streets
Posted by:
Richard Stachowski
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Date: September 22, 2013 09:26PM
[b]give an intersection location.[/b]
Re: Service Stations - Side Streets
Posted by:
Kchi
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Date: September 23, 2013 01:08PM
The only reference that I can find for the service station was in 1938. It was listed as G&H Service Station with the proprietor being George Wsysinski. Corner of Webster and Leavitt.
Re: Service Stations - Side Streets
Posted by:
rjmachon
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Date: October 03, 2013 11:16PM
There was a garage and the entrance was on 1217 West Albion Street, just a half block west of Sheridan Road on the south side of the street. The garage was between Albion and the CTA EL tracks. The entrance was a driveway leading to the garage. If you didn't know about this place, you couldn't find it. The building dates back to 1938. They sold gas there at one time as well. It was torn down around 1980.
1236-46 West Loyola Ave. was another garage that dated back to 1916. Right in the middle of the side street on the north side between two apartment buildings. This building was torn down around 1990.
Both of these locations are parking lots for now.
1236-46 West Loyola Ave. was another garage that dated back to 1916. Right in the middle of the side street on the north side between two apartment buildings. This building was torn down around 1990.
Both of these locations are parking lots for now.
Re: Service Stations - Side Streets
Posted by:
rjmachon
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Date: October 03, 2013 11:49PM
This garage on the North side of Chicago and is still open. 1129 West Ardmore. They also shot a film scene in this garage for the movie, The Dilemma.
Re: Service Stations - Side Streets
Posted by:
deepstblu2
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Date: October 06, 2013 11:15PM
The Willow Service Station was a little Texaco that used to be visible from the north side 'L'; I think it was at Willow and Bissell, neither one exactly an expressway.
Re: Service Stations - Side Streets
Posted by:
Brian J. Patterson
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Date: December 24, 2013 05:39PM
Hello, deepstblu2 and all.
The building still "exists" on Google Streetview. It is located at 935 W. Willow St, at the intersection of Willow and North Bissel. It is about 100 feet east of the Brown Line, about 400 yards south of the Armitage Station. The last "signed" occupant was a shop specializing in the repair and restoration of European Imported vehicles. They don't appear to be in buisness.
As a gasoline station, the would have had to have had their pumps in the public sidewalk. This would have ended long enough ago since there are no "pump scars" in the sidewalk, indicating the sidewalks were completely replaced at least once since they stopped selling gas.
Thanks.
Brian J. Patterson.
deepstblu2 Wrote:
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> The Willow Service Station was a little Texaco
> that used to be visible from the north side 'L'; I
> think it was at Willow and Bissell, neither one
> exactly an expressway.
The building still "exists" on Google Streetview. It is located at 935 W. Willow St, at the intersection of Willow and North Bissel. It is about 100 feet east of the Brown Line, about 400 yards south of the Armitage Station. The last "signed" occupant was a shop specializing in the repair and restoration of European Imported vehicles. They don't appear to be in buisness.
As a gasoline station, the would have had to have had their pumps in the public sidewalk. This would have ended long enough ago since there are no "pump scars" in the sidewalk, indicating the sidewalks were completely replaced at least once since they stopped selling gas.
Thanks.
Brian J. Patterson.
deepstblu2 Wrote:
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> The Willow Service Station was a little Texaco
> that used to be visible from the north side 'L'; I
> think it was at Willow and Bissell, neither one
> exactly an expressway.
Re: Service Stations - Side Streets
Posted by:
Deejo
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Date: December 26, 2013 04:01AM
I think this is the Texaco described earlier, which is at 913 W. Willow, not 935. It is on the SE corner of Willow and Bissell, not the SW:
http://www.zillow.com/homedetails/913-W-Willow-St-Chicago-IL-60614/2142081159_zpid/
http://www.loopnet.com/Listing/14103608/913-W-Willow-Street-Chicago-IL/
http://www.zillow.com/homedetails/913-W-Willow-St-Chicago-IL-60614/2142081159_zpid/
http://www.loopnet.com/Listing/14103608/913-W-Willow-Street-Chicago-IL/
Re: Service Stations - Side Streets
Posted by:
Brian J. Patterson
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Date: December 26, 2013 02:18PM
Hello, Deejo and all.
913 W. Willow is indeed the ex-Texaco Station, as per your loopnet link. The owner who converted it into a single family residence put up privacy barracades, planted several trees, and have painted the building.
Does anyone have any historical info on 935 W. Willow?
Thanks.
Brian J. Patterson.
913 W. Willow is indeed the ex-Texaco Station, as per your loopnet link. The owner who converted it into a single family residence put up privacy barracades, planted several trees, and have painted the building.
Does anyone have any historical info on 935 W. Willow?
Thanks.
Brian J. Patterson.
Re: Service Stations - Side Streets
Posted by:
davey7
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Date: December 26, 2013 06:11PM
That was published in several places in the 80's, it was very hip.
There are tons of "off street" garages/mechanics in Chicago in buildings that never had street frontage.
There are tons of "off street" garages/mechanics in Chicago in buildings that never had street frontage.
Re: Service Stations - Side Streets
Posted by:
WayOutWardell
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Date: December 26, 2013 10:16PM
Or take a virtual tour:
[url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9LfGneemWM]913 W Willow[/url]
[url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9LfGneemWM]913 W Willow[/url]
Re: Service Stations - Side Streets
Posted by:
Kchi
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Date: January 31, 2016 12:49PM
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