508-525_lakeshore Phillips 66 Gas Station

1933 - March 15 - Kemple to Build Service Station

$3000 Service Station to Go Up on State and Lakeshore

Wrecks Landmark

Brick building to be Ready For Use in Two Months; to Handle Philips Products

Work has been started in tearing down one of the landmarks of the town, the Paramount Hotel.l, to make room for a $3,000 super service station to be built by Homer Kemple

The new station will be of brick and cement with a glass front featuring the exterior. A 60-foot drive is planned so that motorist will have easy access to the service area.

It is expected that the structure will be ready for occupancy in about two months, but gasoline pumps will be installed in about three weeks. Mr. Kemple plans to handle the weill know Phillip's 66 gasoline.

Mr. Kemple plans to leave the house at the rear of the hotel and to enlarge it for his home.

He is an experienced service station manager, havin been connected with the local Shell Station for three and one-half years. Clifford Overmyer has been appointed manager of the Shell Station.

The Paramont Hotel, formerly known as the Chasnell, is about 45 years old [1888], and at one time was one of the popular Hotels of the town.

1934 - Sep - Buys Blue Front - Homer Kemple has bought the front half of Henry Lizenberger's Blue Front dance hall building (formerly bowling alley) which he will wreck and use the space for the enlargement of the driveway to his gasoline station

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Mar 1933 - - Phillips 66 Gas Station

Note there was also a super service station to have been across the street at 504 Lake Shore Dr.; besides the one that has been down on the south east corner of Lakeview Street and Lake Shore Drive since 1924!

1922 - Sep. 13 - Motor Inn Garage / Phillips 66 Gas Station Kemple & Bennett

1933 - Dec 27 - Homer Kemple Burned by Gas Explosion

Homer Kemple, of the Motor Inn Garage, was burned about the hands and chest Thursday evening in what might have been a fatal accident but for the quick work of those standing by.

Kemple was holding a pan of gasoline under the carburetor, to fill it by suction when the motor backfired in the carburetor, setting fire to the gasoline. In jumping back away from the flames Kemple threw the fluid over him, making him a torch.

Remebering a similar accident where the victim died from inhaling the flames, Kemple held his breath wile men standing nearby rolled min in a blanket and caos, extinguishing the falmes, limiting the painful burns on the hands and chest

1934 - Jan 24 - Lights Match to See If Gas Tank is Full - Yes, Gas Still Burns

When a match is lighted near gasoline the result is always the same, as Curtis Rogers learned to his sorrow Tuesday evening when he struck a match to see if the gas tank was full while being filled at the Motor Inn pumps

Flames leaped high in the air as Charles Bennett jerkeds the hose out of the tank, spreadin the flames on the cement. He put these out with a fire extinguisher, helped push the flaming truck into the street and put in a call for the fire department

The fames were finally sothered by chemicas after the wiring on the engine, and the cad were badlt damaged by the hot fire.

Rogers had just fitted the truck out for CWA work two days perviously.

1934 - Apr 18 - Homer Kemple is now the sole owner of Motor Inn, replacing the firm of Kemple & Bennett

Legals Notices

Notice of Dissolution of Partnership

Notice is hereby given that the undersigned partieds have dissolver the partnership heretofore existing under the firm name and style of Kemple & Bennett, and that all unpaid bill are now due and paybale to Homer H. Kemple, the survivor of said partnership business.

Dated at Culver Indiana, this 12th day of April, 1934. (Signed) Homer H. Kemple, Charles H. Bennett

1934 - Mar 14 - Notcie as Charles Bennett is not longer associated with me in the operation of the Motor Inn, all accounts are to be paid to me or an authorized employee of the the business and to no one else - Homer H. Kemple, Proprietor of Motor Inn

1935 - Jan 9 - Kemple Now Associate Dealer For Gen. Motors

Homer H. Kemple, proprietor of Motor Inn garage, has signes contracts that make him an associate dealer for the full line of General Motors automobiles

He has been acting in this capacity for Chevrolets for the ast few years, but now is in a postion to handle any make of car made bu General Motors.

1935 - Oct 30 - Spanglers Now Operating Kemples Service Station

George Spangler and son, A HREF="610_lakeshore_dr/bryon_spangler.htm" target=new> Bryon, have leased the Kemple Service Station and too over the operation of the business Monday.

Homer Kemple has accepted a position in the tailor shop at the Acadmey.

1937 Sanborn map this is labeled as auto Sales& service and with gas pumps Note - there is also another gas station on the lot across State Street next to the movie theater by 1937; besides the one that has been down on the south east corner of Lakeview Street and Lake Shore Drive since 1924!

1938 - Jan 26 - Spangler Sales & Service - Phillips 66 - Bryon Spangler Manager (ads found)

1940 - Mar 6 - Washburn Manager of Phillips 66 Station

William R Washburn, formerly of Fort Wayne and son of W. E. Washburn of Culver, has become manager of the Phillips 66 Station

Bryon Spangler, former manager has opened a garage and sales room at the rear of the George Spangler House.

According to Cutter Washburn, his parents’ interest in the care and feeding of teenagers had its start in that sort of gas-station candy sales, at a Phillips 66 service station on the north-west corner of Lake Shore Drive and State Street, currently the site of the fire station. The elder Washburns had moved here from Fort Wayne (where they were already operating a gas station) around 1941, and the Phillips station quickly became a teen hang-out— beyond the snacks for sale, the place had board and card games on hand to make it, as we would say today, user-friendly. They went on to opertate "The Barn." located on School Street and the Beach Lodge during the summer months.

1942 - Dec 23 - H. N. Blair is opertating the Phillips 77 Service Station as George Spangler is confined to his home following a fall on a sidewalk last week

1935 - 1944 - Spangler was to have owned - Have not found a purchase date between the lease date of Oct 30 1935 between Kemple & Spangler and when Spangler sold to VanMeter on Feb 2, 1944 by newspaper accounts.

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