Gainsley & Watts - Ann Arbor, Michigan
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N 42° 16.933 W 083° 44.906
17T E 273381 N 4684769
The old Gainsley & Watts service station has been repurposed as the Main Party Store.
Waymark Code: WM8AY0
Location: Michigan, United States
Date Posted: 03/03/2010
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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 tells us about this station 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."
This station was found in the 1945 Polk's city directory (
visit link) .