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The Shell Station at Siebenthaler and Main
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Datacreed
2 posts
Apr 08, 2013
8:00 AM
It was the early 1970's and I'm about three years old. Standing on the passenger seat of my Dad's white 1964 Plymouth Valiant, (who needs seat belts?), Dad would pull in to the Shell station at North Main and Siebenthaler Avenue, about a half-mile South of the Loews Theater that would burn down a few years later. A full-service fill-up, although I don't recall the price per gallon at the time, would yield a free Mattel Hot Wheels car! The station attendant would return the clipboard, and with it attached the "prize"! I so looked forward to that trip to Shell. On another day when the Valiant was on the hoist in the garage, Dad demonstrated the basic principle of the modern rear-wheel differential. By turning one of the rear wheels, he noted how the other wheel would spin in the opposite direction. I believe I experienced my first automatic car wash at that station too, when it was added to the building a year later, in addition to learning how to fill a tire with FREE air from their air pump that would clatter and hiss while showing air pressure on its big mechanical display. Good times with Dad at the old Shell station, right next door to a Winters Bank branch.

Pete
Syxpack
80 posts
Apr 08, 2013
11:57 AM
Data, you lost me! Siebenthaler as I remember, is north of where the Loews Theater used to be.
Datacreed
3 posts
Apr 08, 2013
1:27 PM
I recall the theater a bit North, right next to North-town Plaza, which was itself, South of the public library on Bennington. There was a Burger Chef across from this theater on N. Main, which put the theatre on the West side of Main.
Syxpack
81 posts
Apr 08, 2013
5:55 PM
The Loews Theater that I remember was in the same block as Rikes Department Store, between 2nd & 1st street and it was next to Maude Muellers candy store. Are you sure the theater, you're referring to was Loews. I remember another movie theater on North Main, but I can't recall its name. Was it Loews Ames?

Last Edited by Syxpack on Apr 08, 2013 6:10 PM
Datacreed
4 posts
Apr 09, 2013
7:49 AM
Lowes-Ames, I think you're right, Thomas. Thanks!
MikeH
71 posts
Sep 24, 2013
4:28 AM
That was Steinbrunner Shell; Chick the dad and Jack the son were owners. They were open 24 hrs and a few of us car guys hung there at night with our friends that worked there and worked on our cars.
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Mike Harris
thomas6
75 posts
Sep 24, 2013
9:16 PM
so Mike did you have to hide your car,or was this later,I remember a few guys that did that,Cary (don't remember his last name) did I knew there were others,I didn't have a car but Goines did so....
MikeH
72 posts
Oct 05, 2013
5:39 AM
I did hide/park my car on Bruce Ave. but didn't hang at the Shell Station until a few years later when I was out of Shawen Acres. Carrie Campbell, cottage #4 was his name.
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Mike Harris
AlmaNurse
2 posts
Oct 17, 2013
8:37 PM
Loews Theater was downtown, while Loew's-Ames was north of Siebenthaler. Spent many hours there in the late 60's/early 70's. The downtown-Loews on Main Street in the block north of Rikes, & directly across the street from the Victory Theater. Yes, it was called the Victory back then. I think Saturday matinees were 50 cents. Does anyone remember tho old Alhambra Theater out on East Third?
Billd1952
118 posts
Oct 20, 2013
7:02 PM
AlmaNurse, I lived 2 blocks from the Alahambra. Admission was 25 cents. I used to hang out at Rikes too. My aunt worked there in the housewares department, selling sewing machines and vacumes. My cousin and I would ride our bikes to the Shell station at N. Main and Siebenthaler to get a soda, then ride down to the Siebenthaler bridge to fish.


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