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I believe this was the gas station on the south west corner of Main and Geneva in Wheaton. I worked there from 1978 to 1980. In 1979 it became a Oklahoma gas station. Norm Janich was the owner when I worked there.

Was that across the street from the Jewel Grocery Store & was previously the Mary Pogue School? I thought that land was for the Theisophical(sp) Society

Everything has changed! The downtown area especially & now liquor can be sold within the city limits. That's a very BIG change. While I was growing up the town was dry. I can remember the men coming home from work, stopping at that small bar on Gary Ave right before you got into Wheaton for a drink around dinner time. That place was packed with cars that time of night!!(I don't remember the name of the place though.)

This was a fairly new gas station in 1965, as it does not show up on the 1962 aerial images I have access to. At that time there was nothing at the Schmale/North Ave intersection except farm fields. The station survived the widening of North Avenue (barely) in the 1990s, but by 2002 the property had been cleared for future development.

Would love to find some more pictures of this station from the 70s and 80s, especially when it was branded OKLAHOMA!! Can anyone help with this request?

I do see now on the map that the location of this gas station was on the Southwest corner of North Ave. and Schmale Road but I don't remember a gas station on that corner? I will have to ask my father, he drove past that intersection every day from 1958-1990. I think the Bar on Gary Ave. just outside of Wheaton was called Gables or Twin Gables? I had my first beer at a bar there.

The bar was the Gables and is now Rosie o"reilly's

Hello Norm,

Unfortunately one only have one other year of film for this county which is 1985. This film does not cover this area it is only the southwest corner.

The Bar was The Gables and it is now White Castle.