{"id":2411,"date":"2010-07-28T00:47:09","date_gmt":"2010-07-28T05:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=2411"},"modified":"2011-04-23T23:00:30","modified_gmt":"2011-04-24T04:00:30","slug":"bill-dubose-66-service-station-3771-covenant-road-1970s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=2411","title":{"rendered":"Bill DuBose 66 Service Station, 3771 Covenant Road: 1970s"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The ad is from the December 1961 Southern Bell phonebook, and looking at the Service Station<\/i> section is rather interesting. It almost appears that most every station choosing to get a picture ad used the same studio, with each ad having a Zip-A-Tone gray-wash area and a (different) little cartoon service-man.<\/p>\n

I'm not completely<\/i> sure that this building was DuBose<\/i>. The older phonebooks are less anal<\/s> conscientious about giving full numbered street adresses than the current ones. I am sure it was a Phillips 66<\/i>, and it is<\/i> on Covenant Road, so I'm pretty sure it's it.<\/p>\n

The station is in Ravenwood<\/i> just at the intersection of Covenant & Bethel Church Roads, catty-cornered from the old Campbell's Convenience Store<\/a> and the old Piggly WIggly<\/a>, directly across from the second location of Forest Lake TV<\/a> \/ Ravenwood Pharmacy<\/a> and next door to the old Sunshine Cleaners<\/a>. (Heavens, that sentence got more complicated and link-full than I expected -- there's been a lot<\/i> of turnover in the area!)<\/p>\n

I'm a little hazy on exactly when the 66 station closed and what followed it. I think it was the 70s, and I think the building got a bit run-down afterwards. The current tenant, Keith's K & A Automotive<\/i> spruced it up a good bit and seems to do a very good business there -- I had to wait for a Sunday to get a picture of the place without lots of cars in front of it. I really like the bi-level construction and strong roof-line of the building.<\/p>\n

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The ad is from the December 1961 Southern Bell phonebook, and looking at the Service Station section is rather interesting. It almost appears that most every station choosing to get a picture ad used the same studio, with each ad having a Zip-A-Tone gray-wash area and a (different) little cartoon service-man. I'm not completely sure […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[265,13,264,267,266,4],"class_list":["post-2411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-bethel-church-road","tag-business","tag-covenant-road","tag-gas","tag-ravenwood","tag-stores"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2411\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}