Gas Stations – Retro Toledo Metro

Billings & Sons Sohio, 8330 W. Central Ave.

Demolished c2005.

Red & White, 3745 Centennial Rd.

Sound Asylum Records, 2582 Monroe Street

Built c1921 as Hi-Speed Gas Station (later E.E. Moore’s Hi-Speed Station). Might have been a laundromat in the late ’40s/early ’50s.

Texaco, 3115 Centennial Rd.

This service station was located on the northwest corner of Central Avenue and Centennial Road.

Ringel Home, 7349 W. Central Ave.

Toledo-Lucas County Public Library Block Card Collection

Other names associated with this property: Pacer (c1962). Property was sold c1993.

Hendrickson’s Sinclair, 7417 W. Central Ave.

Later became National Camperland. Currently O’Reilly Auto Parts.

Bud & Dick’s Gulf, 4001 Holland-Sylvania Rd.

Structures on this property were moved or demolished before the Gulf station was built, c1958. Became Tony’s Gulf (c1979) and Licata’s Sunoco (c1983). Various updates/modifications were made to the building over the years before being demolished c2004. A new struture was built on the property.

Texaco and Dewey Oil Company, 3536 & 3538 N. Holland-Sylvania Rd.

Toledo Lucas County Public Library Auditor’s Images Collection (“Blockcards”)

Located across from the former Driftwood Lounge (aka Frontier Bar). Also known as Barney’s Texaco Service and Glanzman Texaco Service. The Texaco station (above) was demolished c1990s. The Dewey Oil Company building (later the Texas Company, then Star Oil Company) remains as Joe’s car sales.