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    A Special Service Station

    Apr 05, 2022 2 minutes
    By Leon W. Rhodes

    uring the Depression in the early 1930s, my dad decided to operate a Sinclair service station in our small town of Bridgewater, Va. Before that he had worked at the Bridgewater Plow Shop, which made hand push plows. Wages were low everywhere, so he thought

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