When a Gas Station Was a Gas Station
Two views of the Main and Maple corner, 64 years apart
Here’s your jigsaw: Manchester’s Gulf Station, 1961.
It closed in 2005.
That corner has seen a lot of changes, and the rest of Main Street as well.
Learn more in Nancy Wasserman’s excellent historic overview with photographs from the Dartmouth Alumni Magazine.
Present day street view:
Originally, I wanted to avoid a huge IRVING ad in my post, so I had my digital assistant offer some alternatives:





My original instruction was..."change IRV to BOR"
OIVEY! indeed.
But in the end I stuck with the original street view. Not sure how this “in your face” facade passed muster in Hanover, but…
Thanks for reading.




Do School St. and Main St. intersect? I thought that was South St.......