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Many early gas stations were rough, simple shacks along the road. The Pure Oil Company decided to defy that stereotype with its widespread brand. In the 1920s, their chief engineer Carl August Peterson designed a steep-roofed, brick-walled station in a Tudor Revival style. It had tall chimneys on each end, flower boxes and fancy ironwork ...
Tomah Amtrak Station with Empire Builder train Walmart distribution center in Tomah, Wisconsin close to the Junction of I-90 and I-94 Tomah is a significant regional transportation hub because of its location where Interstate 90 and Interstate 94 diverge or come together, depending on what direction one is travelling.
Tomah station is an Amtrak intercity train station in Tomah, Wisconsin. It is served by the daily round trips of the Borealis and Empire Builder . The station house is a wooden structure that was originally built by the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad . [ 2 ]
A view of the new gas station complex constructed by Quasius Construction as seen, Thursday, March 7, 2024, on North Rapids Road and Menasha Avenue in Manitowoc, Wis.
Kwik Trip is a chain of convenience stores founded in 1965 [6] that has locations throughout Wisconsin, Minnesota, and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan under the name Kwik Trip, and in Illinois, Iowa, and South Dakota [7] under the name Kwik Star.
SuperAmerica was a chain of refined oil stations and convenience stores in the Upper Midwest, based in Woodbury, Minnesota. It was owned by Marathon Petroleum. The first convenience store opened in the 1960s. SuperAmerica had 278 stores with 271 in Minnesota, 11 in Wisconsin and 2 in South Dakota. [4]
Founded by Emory T. Clark in 1932 as a single filling station on the corner of 60th St. and Greenfield Ave. in West Allis, Wisconsin, Clark Super Gas sold only premium gasoline. Unlike most contemporary service stations, Clark stations did not offer mechanical maintenance and tire changing. In 1943, the company moved into refining oil.
Today, the Ho-Chunk Nation owns and operates several casinos, Ho-Chunk Gaming, in Black River Falls, Baraboo, Madison, Nekoosa, Tomah, and Wittenberg, Wisconsin. [26] They also own numerous restaurants and hotels connected to the casinos, as well as numerous gas stations.