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HGO-01-001-F-T-2
GUSN-362348
This image by an unidentified photographer depicts a Gulf Oil Corp. gas station, also known as Tobey's Gulf Service Station, owned and operated by Nathan T. Shindler.
This building was demolished in 1958 and the location is now the site of Boston Fire Department Engine 16.
service stations
black-and-white prints (photographs)
paper (fiber product)
ink
1 photograph; 5 x 7 inches
1 sheet of paper; 8 1/2 x 11 inches
PC001
General photographic collection
2019
PC001.02.02.3150.0100.002
Library & Archives Purchase
before 1958
Dorchester (Boston, Suffolk county, Massachusetts) [neighborhood]
black-and-white prints (photographs)
paper (fiber product)
ink
Gulf Oil Corporation
Item
HGO-01-001-F-T-2
Sophia Cos, Assistant Archivist, October 2023.
DACS 2nd edition
This gas station was operated as Tobey's Gulf Service Station by Nathan T. Shindler from at least 1955 (if not before) to its closure in 1958. Shindler was the son of Russian Jewsih immigrants and had served in World War II.
Polks Boston City Directory: 1955, Vol. 2. Boston: R. L. Polk & Co., 1955. Internet Archive. https://archive.org/details/bostondirectoryi02bost/mode/2up?view=theater
Polks Boston City Directory: 1958, Vol. 2. Boston: R.L. Polk & Co., 1958. Internet Archive. https://archive.org/details/bostondirectoryi582bost/page/n7/mode/2up?view=theater
United States Census, 1950.
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