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| CONNECTICUT: ICE BOXES & LATER |
| former Gulf station Willimantic, CT |
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| This Willimantic former Gulf is actually an older station that was refaced to look like an icebox in 1953. It is still selling gas and doing repairs while it is also doing business as Knights Oil and Heating Service. |
| former Mobil station Hamden, CT |
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Architect Eliot Noyes created the design that was used in 19,000 new and remodeled Mobil stations around the world. The first one was built in New Haven, CT. This Hamden station would also originally have had Noyes' cylindrical shaped pumps with brushed-aluminum casings (see this Holbrook, AZ station for an example and this patent from 1967). Despite the prevalence of these stations at one time, it is extremely rare to find any currently functioning (or repurposed) of this design. These umbrella canopies have been replaced by the giant rectangular variety.
For another example of these canopies and pumps, see this station in Denton, NC. |
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