Will be driving by it tomorrow.

Definitely the coolest project I have seen. Love the old Sinclair stations and have seen many in my 66 years. The work you have done is excellent and whoever opens a business there will do very well. Love the idea of the pub table from the lift. looking forward to seeing the inside finished. If I ever get to Henrietta again, I will have to drop by. We used to live in WF and Dad used to be the VP of Piggly Wiggly Western Division....one of the stores in his division was there.

OK time for an update. Pretty much done with everything major- now it's just finishing up the enclosure and figuring out what we're going to do with them both....

Picture dump follows....

Outside the station.



Front of the second building


Nice long white wall- going to have an "Instagram-type mural" painted here probably...


West side of the station

HVAC bank and back of the station


Covered area- sliding door and wood accent wall going up there in the back of the framing


Front room of the station


Back room where the coffee bar should go

Front bathroom


Back room looking front


Back room


Looking into the bays

Looking from the bays back into the office/front area


Secondary building bench


Counter area


Coffee bar I made

One of the bathrooms


Looking back to front


Storeroom/washing area- waiting on sink and equipment, refrigeration, etc. depending on use



So that's about it- easing into usage and working several different angles.
And also looking for the next project- maybe another station....

Man that looks great! Great job!

Holy smokes you did a fantastic job on that! What’s the end game for the building? Coffee shop? Pub? Event venue?

Not sure. I’m talking with some folks that are interested in opening something in the second building. Leaning towards coffee shop/hangout/venue on the station.

Such a cool and historic project….

looks good! no natural gas in the building?

Very very impressive!

Absolutely outstanding! You have done extremely well sir.

Gas lines in place for possible corner fireplace in the secondary building, line is run for griddle/etc and the furnace is gas. The station has a large gas line run along the outside back wall that’s terminated at the canopy for possible use with some overhead heaters. That line is also split off into the station bays for potential fireplace in there. I haven’t had a meter placed for the station yet because the gas bill for commercial buildings is crazy- think 90$ a month even with 0 usage…

There is an old station in Gainesville that was converted into a bar type restaurant and was operated a couple years as such. It then closed and has been for sale. It would be cool if someone "un-converted" and restored it as there is a fully restored GULF station across the street.

Fantastic job The old Sinclair gas stations use to have the Green dinosaur, any plans adding one?

The style of sign you have in your post wasn’t used until later on- I think in the 60’s or so- I tried to keep this one true to its age….

Thanks for the history lesson on it.
Since I was born in the mid 50's, by the time I had a clue what was going in the world the sign with the dinosaur is all I remember.

SWEETTTTT!

Excellent work!

Yep, excellent job! Glad to see our town getting some much needed building restoration!! Can't believe I haven't seen this thread before now (or if I did, I forgot!ha) I've been driving past that station for nearly 40 years and it looks awesome now!

yep, the brontosaurus logo came along in the early to mid 1960s. My dad's first Sinclair delivery truck that I remember was a mid-late 50s Chevy, painted Kelley Green with the single strip lettering like on the photos above on this station. He updated his truck mid-late 60s, still Kelley Green but had the larger logo with the dinosaur. He updated all his stations around that same time.

I still recall mid 60s as a young kid going to the Texas state fair where they had these machines that did injection molded 3D images of various dinosaurs and the brontosaurus was Kelley Green and my dad bought dozens to put in all his stations to show off the new logo design.

then early 70s, Atlantic Richfield bought out Sinclair in most southern states and changed their colors and logo to ARCO, truck went to silver with a blue logo

Nicely done! Looks great.

Congrats on making your community a better place! Beautiful work!