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Young’s Grocery and Gas in the 1930s

ca. 1925-1945

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Young’s Grocery and Gas in the 1930s
  • Title
  • Young’s Grocery and Gas in the 1930s
  • Date
  • ca. 1925-1945
  • Identifier
  • 20110202-hpicmonroeville-0148
  • Source Identifier
  • 350
  • Description
  • In December, 1913 the first gas station in the world was opened in Pittsburgh by the Gulf Oil Corporation. The idea of today’s “convenience store” probably began when some neighborhood grocer began selling gasoline at his roadside stand. James and Jennie Young had such a store with an added gas station near James Street, a place that would come to be known to the locals as “Young’s Corner.”
  • Type
  • still image
  • Genre
  • photographs
  • Subject
  • Service stations--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
    Motor vehicles--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
    Pittsburgh (Pa.)--History.
  • Source
  • hpicmonroeville
  • Contributor
  • Monroeville Historical Society
  • Collection
  • Monroeville Historical Society Collection
  • Rights Information
  • No Copyright - United States. The organization that has made the Item available believes that the Item is in the Public Domain under the laws of the United States, but a determination was not made as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. The Item may not be in the Public Domain under the laws of other countries. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information.
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