Shea's Petroliana Museum
Posted by: TravisGood
N 39° 49.733 W 089° 38.300
16S E 274217 N 4412096
A vast collection of service station memorabilia in Springfield, IL.
Waymark Code: WM1A7T
Location: Illinois, United States
Date Posted: 03/12/2007
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Over the course of 50 years, the Sheas put together an amazing little museum.
The site is an old gas station that lay along Route 66, originally as a Texaco and later as a Marathon. To make things really interesting they bought and then colocated the oldest station along the entire length of Route 66 in Illinois, the 1925 Mahan Filling Station. Between these two service stations and the Shea's decades of collecting, they have put together an amazing collection of service station memorabilia. There's so much to see and it's so tightly packed, it's really fun to visit.
To this day, Bill and Helen Shea are still curators of this museum.