thank you, jack......thought i was losin' it! like you, i always called hi-way 2, hi-way or route (never root) 2.....always called 69, 69 too......mac -- Original Message ----- From: "Jack Scott" <[email protected]> To: "decatur county list" <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, December 01, 2009 2:56 PM Subject: [IADECATU] the filling station and other... > The filling station I mentioned in my earlier email was at the SW corner > of Main and Commercial and was adjacent to the Leon Hotel which faced > Main. The stations that > came along later are close but at different places. The Diamond DX > station, built by my granddad's partner Clint Davis and, I guess owned by > the Carwrights later, > was at the NE corner of Church and Commercial diagonally across from the > Methodist Church. The other station -- 107 W Commercial -- the Phillips > 66 is the one that was located where my home was -- we moved the house in > 1937 -- at the SE corner of Church and Commercial St and directly across > east from that same church. > > Looking at Google maps I see that Commercial St is now called 1st. > Actually, I never called it either one -- it was rte 2. > > Yes, they changed the numbering of E-W streets. When our house was moved > we were on 11th street south. After the renumbering its new > mail address was on 4th St South. ... jack > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Richard Albright" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Tuesday, December 01, 2009 11:06 AM > Subject: Re: [IADECATU] Leon opera house > > > FYI: My 1968 telephone directory for Leon and nearby towns shows the > Hotel Leon at 104 South Main and Cartwright's DX Service Station at 101 > West > Commercial. There also was Robinson's 66 Service Station at 107 West > Commercial. I don't know if either filling station is the one mentioned in > the postings but in '68 those are the only ones listed on Commercial and > none was listed in the first block of Main, but not all stations in the > phone book had addresses. Rick > www.iagenweb.org/decatur > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >