Coyles High Speed - Ann Arbor, Michigan
Posted by: GT.US
N 42° 17.157 W 083° 44.635
17T E 273766 N 4685172
The old gas station at Detroit and Division is currently closed and falling apart. The last I remember they sold used cars.
Waymark Code: WM8A20
Location: Michigan, United States
Date Posted: 02/25/2010
Views: 5
The 1945 Polk Directory names the business at 544 Detroit as Coyles High Speed Service.
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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 the Coyles station here-
"Several sites have been converted to parks. Warren Staebler’s old gas station on Packard is now Franklin C. Forsythe Park, named after the first president of the Jaycees. Liberty Plaza is a gas station site. Two other stations, the old Clark station at Division and Detroit and Ben Wilkes’s station at Summit and Main, are being considered for the same use. "
As of today the buidling is still standing with no sign of a pending park.