VERNIE MARTIN'S SERVICE STATION
The lots next to the hardware store were vacant for many years before Vernie Martin built a service station there. It was the first to have electric gas pumps, a hydraulic lift for servicing vehicles and a grease gun operated by compressed pressure. He later erected a Quonset hut type building for a full service garage.
George Holbrook later rented the service station. Many men would stay there especially during wintertime because it had a new type kerosene-burning stove. Sometimes the cigarette smoke was as thick as a cloud in that little area.
Vernie still works in his garage on the south side of Main Street, Oakwood.
Still work in garage. Bobby Martin
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