Sunoco Service Station from the late ’30s

This photo shows the Umstott Sunoco Service Station from the late 1930s. The location is Cambridge, Ohio at the corner of U.S. Rte 40 and Dewey Ave. Cambridge was sitting astride 3 major US and state routes in this time frame and gasoline stations were in abundance. This small Sunoco station has the usual advertising. Sunoco gasoline, Quaker State motor oil, Gates tires. The chances that they had the brand that you were looking for was high, we just wonder where they stored it. A typical small town service station that was eventually added onto over the years, allowed to decay and then torn down. Relatives still run a full service mini-mart style station on the opposite side of the intersection but the new station seems to be lacking the charm of the original.