TEXACO/SINCLAIR STATION - NE CORNER GEER AND FOSTER
Looking north at the Texaco Station. , 1952. The Scott and Roberts Cleaners is in the left background on Foster St.
(Courtesy Wayne Henderson)
The Texaco station at the northeast corner of W. Geer and Foster Sts. appears to have originally been built in the 1940s. By the 1960s, it had become a Sinclair Station.
Looking northeast, a partial view of the Sinclair station at Geer and Foster St., 08.31.61.
(Courtesy The Herald-Sun Newspaper)
It was one of three service stations located at this intersection. I'm not sure when it went out of business as a gas station, but it has seemed fairly abandoned over the last ~10 years.
Above, former Texaco/Sinclair Station sometime in the 1990s.
Recently however, it has undergone significant renovation and is really wonderfully transformed. My understanding is that will become some sort of fitness studio (I may not be right about that.) But this kind of renovation shows the possibilities inherent in well-constructed and interesting small buildings.
Looking northeast, 06.08.08
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Pilates, is the word on the street.
I had heard it is going to be a coffee shop. However, the interior layout after renovations is not conducive to a coffee shop or other restaurant type place.
Pilates makes more sense.
the gas station will be my GYROTONIC (r) / GYROKINESIS (r) studio . . . . one car bay for each.
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