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Two red, advertising ice scrapers from Robert P. Whitehouse, Inc., a Tydol Service Center. The business was located at 1 Powder Mill Rd., Maynard, Mass. Tydol was Tidewater Oil Company and marketed its products under the Flying A brand name on its…

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A promotional set of needles distributed when Charlie Colburn owned the Esso station at the corner of Main and Waltham Streets, 2 Main St.

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A promotional wall calendar depicting a 1919 era automobile for each month. January is the Owen Magnetic. The 1975 dates are the same as the 1919.

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This station was located at the corner of Powdermill Road and Waltham Street. This photo is likely taken in the 1940's.

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A black and white photo of young girls conducting a car wash at the New Orbit Car Wash which was part of Howard Boeske's Sinclair gas station on Waltham Street (near the Assabet River)

Note: The price of the (leaded) gasoline was 35 cents/gallon.

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Junction of Main St. and Great Road
Also the location of France's Store (Frances' Store)

Owned b y Walter France

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A customer fills up their tank at a Gulf gas station operated by the United Cooperative Society. The station was located at 5 Waltham Street.

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Photograph of Bob Whitehouse, owner of the "Flying A" service station located at 1 Powdermill Road. (The other people are not identified.) Bob was also a Fire Engineer for the Maynard Fire Dept.

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Group portrait of young women (station attendants?) at Boeske's Gas Station (on Brown Street, Acton Street?)

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A Gulf gas station operated by the United Cooperative Society. The station was located at 5 Waltham Street.

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Ray's was a repair and gas station located at 76 Powder Mill Road.

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Ray's was a repair and gas station located at 76 Powder Mill Road. His father Joe Tannuzzo first started the business. He use to carry large sums of cash on thursdays as he use to cash the checks of his regular customers.

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Ray's was a repair and gas station located at 76 Powder Mill Road. His father Joe Tannuzzo first started the business. He use to carry a large amount of cash on thursdays so he could cash the checks of his regular customers.

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The Sinclair Gas Station and New Orbit Car Wash, located on Waltham Street at intersection of Main and Summer Streets, was run by George O'Brien.

The photo shows a number of (assumed) high school students looking under the hood of a car at the…

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The Sinclair Gas Station and New Orbit Car Wash, located on Waltham Street at intersection of Main and Summer Streets, was run by George O'Brien.

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The Sinclair Gas Station and New Orbit Car Wash, located on Waltham Street at intersection of Main and Summer Streets, was run by George O'Brien.

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Ray's was a repair and gas station located at 76 Powder Mill Road.

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This Esso gas station was located on Main & Waltham Streets and was operated by Charlie Colburn

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Looks like somebody just won a television at the Gulf gas station operated by the United Cooperative Society. The station was located at 5 Waltham Street. A "Dollar Stretcher Sale" was happening at the time. The contest winner's shirt implies he…

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A customer fills up their tank at a Gulf gas station operated by the United Cooperative Society. The station was located at 5 Waltham Street.