Leon Sperry Auto Service - Ann Arbor, Michigan
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N 42° 16.323 W 083° 44.521
17T E 273874 N 4683623
The building that once housed Leon Sperry Auto service has been reborn as a Cottage Inn Pizza location.
Waymark Code: WM8A0A
Location: Michigan, United States
Date Posted: 02/25/2010
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The 1943 Polk City Directory at (
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lists Sperry's Service under the heading of Gasoline - Wholesale/Retail.
In an October 2000 Article in the Ann Arobor Observer (
visit link) entitled Gasoline Alley, author Grace Shackman tells of the rise an fall of the gas stations in Ann Arbor.
She briefly mentions Sperrys here-
"Last January an Observer survey found that the number of gas stations in Ann Arbor had fallen from eighty-seven in 1950 to fifty in 1980 and just thirty today. As stations have closed, their buildings have been either torn down or converted to other uses. Former gas station buildings still standing, in addition to those already mentioned, include Copy Quick on Packard, Old Brick Quality Refinishing on Detroit, the Ann Arbor Convention and Visitors Bureau on Huron, and Econo-Car on Division. Many others have found new life as food-related businesses, including DeLong’s Pit Bar-B-Q on North Fifth Avenue, the Main Party Store, the Big Market on Huron, and Ali Baba’s, Jimmy John’s, and the Cottage Inn, all on Packard near State."