old gas stations along Rt 66 and beyond
This one is particularly near and dear to me. My Dad was a navy pilot in WWII, he met and married my Mom when they met at the Mare Island Navy base in CA where she was an enlisted WAVE nurse at the hospital there. When they got home they enrolled in college in the GI Bill and my dad got degrees in Math and Chemistry and a teaching certificate. His first job out of school was as a high school math and chemistry teacher in Normal, Ill. Normal is named after the state teachers college in that town (known then as a 'normal school'). On 66 in Normal is perhaps the most palatial service station that I have never seen. It now houses the town visitor's bureau and stores. And yes, it's another Live Above!
This one is particularly near and dear to me. My Dad was a navy pilot in WWII, he met and married my Mom when they met at the Mare Island Navy base in CA where she was an enlisted WAVE nurse at the hospital there. When they got home they enrolled in college in the GI Bill and my dad got degrees in Math and Chemistry and a teaching certificate. His first job out of school was as a high school math and chemistry teacher in Normal, Ill. Normal is named after the state teachers college in that town (known then as a 'normal school'). On 66 in Normal is perhaps the most palatial service station that I have never seen. It now houses the town visitor's bureau and stores. And yes, it's another Live Above!
