This old station on Tecumseh Rd. W. has long been on my list to swing by and shoot.
I need your help now, what company did this style belong to? There is another one Tecumseh around Parent maybe? It’s painted green and is now a car dealership.
I like the round shape and steel panels on this one. Another intersting mid-century design.
The other building is at the corner of Marentette and Tecumseh. I cant remember what they were though.
Right Nikki, that’s the one. I knew it was somewhere around there.
I’m matching this in my head with some kind of Shell Oil image. But then maybe Gulf Oil, which is no longer (there used to be one on the corner of Lauzon and Tecumseh). But i may be completely wrong.
Wonderful glass. Should be converted into a bar.
I’ve been to this place. Last year I asked the manager/operator and as I recall he said he was convinced that it had been a Fina station. Apparently the shape was very characteristic of that company.
This link is to a gas station from 1955 it looks almost the same. The station in this link looks like they cut into round office and added a section onto the rear of the building. The front looks almost the same as the one here in Windsor though. I googled alot of historic gas stations and didn’t see one the exact same.
http://www.oldgas.com/info/banewtonville.html
Andrew, Jim is absolutely correct.
I walked by this gas station every day on the way to/from from my grade school (St. Clare). This was in the mid/late ’70s. At that time it still had FINA markings but was not active as a gas station. There were all kinds of old cars parked on the lot, possibly being used at that time for used car sales or a scrap operation or who knows what?
That gas station looks like a carbon copy the old FINA gas station that stood on Howard Avenue at MacDougall back in the 1970’s. When Petro Canada bought FINA in the early 1980’s, the old FINA on Howard was sold to a developer and incorporated into a strip mall that housed Tools and Things and Auto Trader. The round, all-glass front of the old FINA is still there but the garage in back is long gone. Maybe somebody else knows what I’m talking about.
It is an old FINA. I lved 4 doors down the street as a child. It was closed already, but the markings were up still. This was the mid 70’s.
Hey Brad, do you remember those really old abandoned homes that were on the site of the present China Valley Restaurant and that four story apt. building just west of it? This would be about 1977. Sometimes on the walk home from school me and my friends used to explore them, it was very freaky for us at the time. They looked like the people just walked away from them, everything was just left behind.
I’m not talking of course about the side-by-sides that were recently torn down to make way for the Habitat Homes. It sounds like you were around the neighbourhood at the same time and would remember what I mean.
This former gas station and others around the city like it were Fina stations. Fina oil was bought out by Petro
Canada
These former gas stations were Fina gas. Bought out by Petro Canada
sometime ago.