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unusual facts about gas station



Breezanddijk

Today, it has a population of four and its solitary commercial establishment is a Texaco gas station for travelers upon the dike.

Louisiana Highway 3103

LA 3103 passes an Exxon gas station immediately before reaching its eastern terminus at a traffic light-controlled 3-way intersection with US 84 Business.

Speedpass

As of 2004, more than seven million people possess Speedpass tags, which can be used at approximately 10,000 Exxon, Mobil and Esso gas stations worldwide.

Twisted Desire

After meeting Nick Ryan (Jeremy Jordan) at a gas station, they soon form a close relationship and begin going out with one another.

U-Haul

The company was founded by Leonard Shoen (L. S. "Sam" Shoen) in Ridgefield, Washington, who began it in the garage owned by his wife's family, and expanded through franchising with gas stations.

Utah State Route 94

The road turns to the northeast after passing a Shell gas station, intersecting a local road, and then the highway forms the western border of a Utah Department of Transportation maintenance facility.

Van Dyne Crotty

Van Dyne and Crotty began their business by renting industrial shop towels to full service gas stations, manufacturing plants like NCR, Delco Products, Frigidaire and the numerous tool and die shops that supported the automotive manufacturing industry in Southwest Ohio.


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2006 Tour of Faroes Islands

Saturday 22 July, was the 4th stage in the Island of Suðuroy, starting on Gas Station of Statoil in Tvøroyri, finished in Gas Station of Statoil in Vági.

Alvadore, Oregon

Today Alvadore is home to a general store and gas station that contains a post office (ZIP Code 97409), a large regional nursery—Decker Nursery—known for its Christmas trees, a volunteer fire department, the Alvadore Christian Church, a nut-drying plant affiliated with Blue Diamond Growers, and a variety of other agricultural businesses including an organic strawberry farm (Berg's Berries and Organic Produce).

Ambler's Texaco Gas Station

Ambler's Texaco Gas Station, also known as Becker's Marathon Gas Station, is a historic filling station located at the intersection of Old U.S. Route 66 and Illinois Route 17 in the village of Dwight, Illinois, United States.

Atlantic City Expressway

Farley Service Plaza, the only service area on the route, has a building containing several fast food restaurants and a gas station.

Bluegrass, Minnesota

Bluegrass contains several abandoned buildings, including an old Texaco gas station with the pumps restored.

Candy Atherton

She spearheaded the campaign to open a Minor Injuries Unit in Camborne Redruth Community Hospital - now used by more than 12,000 people a year - and the campaign to expose the nerve gas station at Nancekuke (RRH Portreath) in her constituency, an issue, surprisingly, that had been well known to the people of the area for several decades.

Canyon Diablo, Arizona

Later on in the 20th century, when Route 66 passed within several miles of the town, a gas station and roadhouse called Two Guns sprang up, but it too was short-lived.

Cogar, Oklahoma

The exterior of the abandoned W.S. Kelly gas station and general store in Cogar can be seen in the 1988 movie, "Rain Man".

Craig Peyer

Cara Knott was last seen alive at a Chevron gas station just two miles away from the murder scene.

Dayton, Maryland

Notable landmarks are the Crossroads Pub famed for their Maryland blue crabs and once owned by the Harp family (Harp's Pub), who also owned Harp's grocery store; the quaint Post Office that oozes Americana; the gas station that was once owned by a man named Lenny, where he used to pump gasoline for automobiles, clean the windshields of cars, and sell vanilla popsicles for 10 cents; and the "Rabbit" which is properly decorated for major holidays.

Earlene Risinger

Her father worked in a gas station, and when his salary did not stretch far enough, his skill hunting jack rabbits put food on the family table.

El Alcaraván Airport

Although this terminal only operates domestic flights between Bogotá and Bucaramanga is classified as an international airport because it has an emigration department, DIAN, airport police, hangars, commercial offices, modules, boarding and debarcation zone, gas station, waiting room and additionally there are many facilities for the passengers such as restaurants, cafeterias and souvenir stores.

Gary Pierce

Concurrently with his new automobile dealerships, Gary owned a Shell gas station and Budget Rent-A-Car franchise.

Halid Bešlić

On 10 March 2009, Bešlić left his gas station at around 4 in the morning, and ran his Škoda Superb off the road, due to icy conditions, and crashed.

Jonathan Legear

On 7 October 2012, Legear was involved in a car accident, where he crashed his car inside an Esso gas station located in Tongeren, having mistaken the accelerator pedal for the brake.

Joseph G. Williams

In 1993 Joe bought a gas station in Warsaw and renamed Ol' Joe's, then in 2003 Joe's oldest son James bought the gas station from his father and kept the name.

Lukeville, Arizona

The community consists of the Lukeville Port of Entry border crossing into Sonoyta, Sonora, Mexico, together with a gas station, a duty free shop, a few outlets that sell Mexican automobile insurance, and a terminal for buses that are bound for Phoenix and Tucson.

Marcus Phillips

Marcus Phillips, a 26-year-old African-American man shot and killed by a staff member of a Dallas, TX gas station leading to protests.

Meredith Emerson

Two days later on January 4, 2008, a witness at a Chevron gas station called DeKalb police and stated that "The guy you are looking for is cleaning out his van."

Michael H. Wynn

While in high school he also worked as a gas station attendant, busboy, and lifeguard at a lake in Romeoville, Illinois.

Miranda, California

Besides the post office, the town boasts one restaurant, a resort, market, and gas station (all owned by the Eldridge family), a Seventh-day Adventist church, a meetinghouse of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormon), a small, rural high school encompassing grades 8-12, a Community Grange, two gift shops, and an active Volunteer Fire Department.

Montegut, Louisiana

Director Benh Zeitlin and his crew worked out of an abandoned gas station in town, and built the film's fictional town—the "Bathtub"—by hand with found artifacts and rusted-out equipment from the surrounding area.

Mr. Hito

While driving to a show in Lethbridge with Bruce Hart, Jim Neidhart, Gerry Morrow and a Stampede road hand, he had suffered facial injuries as well as a broken wrist and a dislocated knee after hitting the back tires of semi-trailer as it was pulling into a roadside gas station.

Murder of Heather Strong

--is this germane to the story?--> an Iron Skillet restaurant at a Petro gas station next to Interstate Route 75 in Reddick.

Norland, Ontario

Norland was once mentioned on NBC's Late Night with Conan O'Brien when the show was in Toronto for a week, Mike Myers mentioned the village by name including the only still operating gas station and a resident of Norland.

Northwest Alabama Regional Airport

The plane was forced to land on a road (Georgia State Route 381) in New Hope, Georgia, but collided with a gas station and exploded, killing 63 of the 85 people onboard the aircraft as well as 9 people on the ground, making it the deadliest aviation disaster in Georgia history.

Nunda, New York

The town also has two golf courses, Woodlynn Hills and Triple Creek, the Bell Memorial Library, Dollar General, Shur Fine, a 7-Eleven convenience store and gas station, and the Kiwanis Club fields and building.

Oneida Indian Nation

Ray Halbritter (Oneida), opened a gas station known as SavOn across the street.

Pamela Polland

Owing to changes of personnel at Columbia, Polland's follow-up album, "Have You Heard The One About The Gas Station Attendant?" (1973), recorded in London with producer Gus Dudgeon and featuring guest appearances from Joan Armatrading, as well as several members of Elton John‘s band and renowned arranger Paul Buckmaster, was shelved.

Preetmohan Singh

The film explores the aftermath of the first post-9/11 hate crime fatality of a Sikh gas station owner in Mesa, Arizona on September 15, 2001.

Propulsive Fluid Accumulator

Boeing has suggested a non-extractive propellant depot, or "space gas station," which accumulates material launched from the planet at low cost, allowing future lunar missions without the need for large launch vehicles like the Saturn V.

Reo, Indiana

Reo is home to several subdivisions, a bank, two schools, a popular five-screen drive-in movie theater (the Holiday Drive-In), a gas station/Wendy's restaurant and four automobile dealerships, along with a number of other businesses.

Reservation Road

Parts of the movie were also filmed at Lake Compounce Amusement Park in Bristol, Connecticut, and the Olde Blue Bird Inn & Gas Station and adjacent Baseball Field in Easton, CT.

Rolling Kansas

Rolling Kansas is about five men (a t-shirt salesman, his two brothers, a large narcoleptic nursing student, and a dim-witted gas station attendant) who embark on a journey to find a secret government marijuana field in Kansas that was discovered on a map that three of the young men's parents left for them (known as the Hippies Murphy).

Round Up

The video, directed by Little X and shot in the Mojave Desert, is a remake of the 1991 road movie Thelma & Louise, and features May and Cantrell stealing money from a gas station, sleeping in a motel, running away from police, and driving a helicopter at the end of the video to escape from the local police.

Shannon Charles Thomas

During his trial, it was revealed that Thomas had also taken part in a robbery on January 4, 1994 where Keith Clay shot Melathethil Tom Varughese, a clerk at a Texaco gas station.

St. Johns Signal Tower Gas Station

It was in operation as a gas station until 1984, but changed brand from Signal Gas to Hellman's Golden Eagle Gas Station in 1954 and, in turn, became a Chevron station in 1965.

Stephen Strimpell

His most famous film role may have been in the 1967 CBS comedy series Mister Terrific, in which he played Stanley Beamish, an innocent gas station attendant, who morphed into the title character, a superhero with an ability to fly.

Swannanoa, North Carolina

I-40 passes through the main commercial area of Swannanoa, which is focused around the Ingles supermarket and gas station.

Tampere–Pirkkala Airport

Low-cost Onnibus expressbus service to Helsinki and Turku leave from Pirkkala ABC gas station, located about 4 km north from the airport, in the intersection of road 308 (Lentoasemantie) and road 3/E12 (Pyhäjärventie).

Tiane Brown

On December 26, 2013, according to The Detroit Free Press, Police released photographs and video surveillance footage of two men at a Marathon gas station on Gratiot.

Twin Brooks, Edmonton

The only commercial building in the community is an Esso gas station along 111 Street.

W. Joe Hoppe

He grew up in Jackson, Michigan, where he worked as a janitor in a tool & die shop and as a gas station attendant.

Windfall: The Oil Crisis Game

Based upon queuing theory and released after the 1979 energy crisis, the game puts the player in the role of chief executive of Engulf Oil, setting gas prices and worker salaries, monitoring gas station lines, scheduling oil tanker arrivals, and negotiating oil prices with OPEC countries in a race against the clock to maximize profits.

Witless Protection

Many parts of the film were filmed in Plano, Illinois and Virgil, Illinois (train depot, farms, gas station and a few downtown restaurants).