Photo 14-IEF-24 from 1968

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This Texaco would later be Schlanser's Shell. Building is still there as a Budget truck rental location. Behind it would later be the K-Mart/Kroger/SuperX building. Now Hobby Lobby, Goodwill, Planet Fitness/Dollar General.

Looking south at a Texaco service station, 1000 North Illinois State Routes 32-33, Effingham, Illinois. The classic Texaco Mattawan design building survives today as a UPS Handle With Care Packaging Store, in the middle of a parking lot.

I work there in 1979 /1980. It was a great place to work and learned a lot of mechanical skills

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