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Thursday, April 24, 2008
Fill'er Up!

Back in the 1940s, the area around Atlantic Boulevard (still called Ocean Drive then) and Federal Highway was largely undeveloped, but no one needed to worry about running out of gas, because there were plenty of filling stations.

On the northwest corner sat McNab's Texaco station. Across Atlantic, on the southwest corner, was William's Gulf station, and the McNab Standard Oil station was on the southeast corner.

The only corner that didn't have a gas station was the northeast -- it had a wooden juice stand called The Orange Bowl.

Oh, and gasoline sold for under 20 cents a gallon in 1940.


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