The Gardner Scene: Gas and service stations of Gardner, Part 3
Mike Richard
Special for The Gardner News
Editor’s note: This is the third of a six-part series on gas and service stations of Gardner.
Before the current Route 2 was built in 1963, the old Route 2 in and out of Gardner headed from the Westminster line down East Broadway and then out to Templeton via West Broadway. Both thoroughfares featured numerous gas stations in their day.
East Broadway
80 East Broadway – Kendall’s Service Station. Harry Kendall operated a gas station at this location the longest from 1952 to 1955. Initially, it was brothers Stan and Elroy Pettengill who ran Stan and Roy’s Service Station there in 1946. Later, it was Shell Oil Co., Richard Brothers Service Station and a business owned by Raymond Bourn in 1950.
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W.E. Lively, the hustling Maxwell auto dealer, has sold a Maxwell to Joseph Johnson. Pictured is a Maxwell Mascotte Touring 1911 by Lars-Göran Lindgren Sweden - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1526033
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This truck belonged to Silas Hall s Transfer Line just after World War I. It was used for hauling freight from the NP (Northern Pacific Railroad) depot to stores around town as well as for other kinds of moving. The picture was taken in front of the railroad freight office. Before the truck, Silas Hal used teams of horses and wagons which he kept at 415 Main (now Washington Street). Source: Brainerd Minnesota 1871 - 1971. Reproduced from the Centennial Edition of the Brainerd Daily Dispatch.
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