Pure Service Station

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A Pure Oil Company service station, pictured in 1937, sells tires, motor oil, and gasoline to motorists in Dalton. The Pure Oil Company built standardized gas stations, designed to look like English cottages, across Georgia during the 1920s and 1930s.

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