LizzieMaine
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I was kind of hoping there would be some effort toward preservation for our place while there was still something left to preserve -- the Teague-style Texaco building is considered a major landmark in American commercial architecture by one of the most important figures in 20th Century industrial design, and out of more than 10,000 that were built, very very few remain in unmolested form. But nobody cares about that stuff when there's real estate to sell.
I suppose I should be thankful it's still standing at all. There was a very nice specimen of an ice-box style Esso station just up the street from us (we lived behind this station for a while when I was very small) but the local Marine Museum bought the property from the local jobber in the late '90s, evicted the guy who was running it, and tore the building down -- specifically because one guy on the museum board thought it spoiled the view from the museum building. The operator had been running it for almost 40 years by that time, and was left jobless. A worse example of bourgie-gentrification arrogance I cannot name.
I suppose I should be thankful it's still standing at all. There was a very nice specimen of an ice-box style Esso station just up the street from us (we lived behind this station for a while when I was very small) but the local Marine Museum bought the property from the local jobber in the late '90s, evicted the guy who was running it, and tore the building down -- specifically because one guy on the museum board thought it spoiled the view from the museum building. The operator had been running it for almost 40 years by that time, and was left jobless. A worse example of bourgie-gentrification arrogance I cannot name.
