Kempf Oil Company - Ann Arbor, Michigan - Vintage Gas Stations on Waymarking.com

In an October 2000 Article in the Ann Arbor Observer (visit link) entitled Gasoline Alley, author Grace Shackman tells of the rise an fall of the gas stations in Ann Arbor.

She mentions Kempfs station briefly 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.

The 1945 Polk City Directory shows Kempfs oil directory

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The Historic Arial Views show this is the same building and that it was never torn down. The building is at the intersection of Ashley and Huron, which is one block left of the intersection of Bus I-94(Huron) and Main on the overlay,

1955: (visit link)

1963: (visit link)

1973: (visit link)

2005: (visit link)

Address of the station: 120 W. Huron street Ann Arbor, MI USA 48104 Type of Gas Station: Reborn

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