{"id":6680,"date":"2012-10-09T00:44:16","date_gmt":"2012-10-09T05:44:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=6680"},"modified":"2012-10-09T00:44:16","modified_gmt":"2012-10-09T05:44:16","slug":"esso-exxon-6015-farrow-road-1970s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=6680","title":{"rendered":"Esso \/ Exxon, 6015 Farrow Road: 1970s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/12\/10\/p1110942.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/12\/10\/p1110942_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1110942_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1110942_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/12\/10\/p1110943.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/12\/10\/p1110943_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1110943_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1110943_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/12\/10\/p1110944.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/12\/10\/p1110944_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1110944_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1110944_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/12\/10\/p1110946.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/12\/10\/p1110946_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1110946_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1110946_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/12\/10\/p1110948.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/12\/10\/p1110948_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1110948_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1110948_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This former <i>Exxon<\/i> is on Farrow Road where it intersects with Broadland Avenue and is now an independant auto repair operation.  I wish it had been a sunnier day so these pictures were less gray and dreary, but that's the way it was, and I don't go by there very often.<\/p>\n<p>Admittedly my closing date is just a guess here, as is postulating that this station started as an <i>Esso<\/i>, but the gull-wing lights lead me to think it was built before 1970, and the <i>Esso<\/i>\/<i>Exxon<\/i> switch didn't happen until 1973.  <\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, the rounded style of the kerosene pump together with the fact that the price only has two digits (plus 1\/10ths of a cent) leads me to think the station didn't make it past the 1970s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This former Exxon is on Farrow Road where it intersects with Broadland Avenue and is now an independant auto repair operation. I wish it had been a sunnier day so these pictures were less gray and dreary, but that's the way it was, and I don't go by there very often. Admittedly my closing date [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[958,13,124,267,959,4],"class_list":["post-6680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-broadland-avenue","tag-business","tag-farrow-road","tag-gas","tag-service-station","tag-stores"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6680","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=6680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6680\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}