Photo 89-BLV-31

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Buick/Pontiac dealership along W. Reynolds Street, Illinois 116. Today this is Driscoll Chevrolet/Buick/GMC/Cadillac, with a new address of 601 South Newport Road, Pontiac, Illinois. Pizza Hut is now gone, moved to a new location west of here. Skelly and Firestone are also gone. A Burger King is there today. Road on west side of dealership is gone. South Newport is now located on the east side of dealership. Photo looks south

Jones Buick/Pontiac Dealership, later Driscoll Motors, looking South-West. Just to the North of Vermilion Plaza (site of the old K-Mart), at the intersection of Route 66 and 116 (Reynolds st). The Skelly Firestone Tires building is gone, but is in the current location of O'Reilly Auto Parts. The old Pizza Hut building remains, but I'm unsure what it currently houses (if anything).

The previous commenter was about a mile off (honest mistake, a visually similar location).

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