Westbrook Esso Museum (Loar's Service Station)

Westbrook Esso Museum (Loar's Service Station)

Westbrook Esso Museum (Loar's Service Station) S. Allen Chambers, Jr.

Westbrook Esso Museum (Loar's Service Station)

Westbrook Esso Museum (Loar's Service Station)
1927. Southwest corner of Price and High sts.

This perfect period piece conjures images of jalopies with rumble seats and running boards and of a time when a soda pop cost a nickel and a uniformed attendant cheerfully answered the command: “Fill 'er up.” The one-story stuccoed service station is set at an angle to the street corner, its red tile hipped roof extending as a canopy to cover two gas pumps. A Bonnie-andClyde-era Chevy truck, loaded with stacked wooden cartons of empty Coca-Cola bottles, is permanently parked in front, and period automobile memorabilia are scattered in and about the station. A sign posted on the door proclaims “Sound horn, we'll open.”

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