Andy Dufresne

On April 9, 2009 at 8:11 PM, Rusty_S said:

If anyone is interested I have two names for the above station which was not really a station by itself it was also a shop.

The very first name I have heard given to this i "Shauer's Garage". Came from family members seeing as my Grandfather bough gas and had some maintance done from them.

But theres still a sticker on the door of the car that says the following.

Harley R. Weyand

Gulf

1402 Oxford St

Houston, Texas

862-1584

The service sticker is dated 10-25-79. So it is fully possible that this "station" used to b Shauer's Garage and then became Harley R. Weyand Gulf. Either way I have phyical proof that it was atleast Harley R. Weyand Gulf station that also did services. The sticker said the transmission and axle was checked.

Schauer was the name. Weyand was his son-in-law who took over when Schauer retired after almost 50 years as a Gulf station.

https://goo.gl/images/AoX1zS 

My Grandfather owned the gas station across from the "Bonnie & Clyde" house on the corner of 14th & Oxford. He'd told me when I was a kid that he'd actually given Clyde a ride to Heights Bank a few days before it was robbed as he didn't realize who Clyde was.  Said he was very nice and they had visited a few times during their occupation of the house. 

Above is a link  to the house they were supposed to have stayed.  Glad I stumbled upon this thread to bring back a great memory of my grandfather.