Texaco

About this location

A few stories people tell about this place

1. At Texaco, a regular announced one day, ‘I bet you can’t fill up my car with gas without spilling a drop.’ The attendant took the challenge, and ever since then, everyone who pumps gas there seems to be trying not to spill anything. Finally, an old delivery driver pulled in, laughing, ‘Watch this!’ He asked for a full tank too. After much ado, the attendant managed it—without a single drop! From that day on, customers came just to see the impossible feat performed every time someone filled up their cars.

2. At Texaco, an old sign above the pumps read, 'Fill Your Tank with Luck Today!' One morning, a delivery driver glanced up and exclaimed, 'Hey, I haven’t had luck in weeks—fill it up for me!' The attendant smiled and nodded, filling the tank without a word. That night, the delivery driver won ten dollars on a scratch card. A week later, he returned to Texaco, grinning from ear to ear. ‘Guess what?’ he said to the attendant. ‘I’ve been lucky ever since!’ The attendant just laughed and replied, “That’s because you filled your tank here.”

3. At Texaco, a delivery driver pulled up one morning and noticed something odd. The pump nozzle seemed to be glowing softly in the pre-dawn light. Curious, he leaned closer—and realized it was just his truck’s headlights reflecting off the clean glass surface. With a laugh, he filled up, joked with the attendant, and drove off. From then on, whenever anyone mentioned ‘the glowing gas pump,’ everyone knew exactly which Texaco they meant—though nobody ever saw it again.

4. At Texaco, a delivery driver pulled up one morning and noticed something odd. The gas pump seemed to be counting down instead of up. The delivery driver shrugged it off as some kind of glitch and filled his tank anyway. Later that day, an elderly neighbor stopped by and asked if he’d seen anything strange. ‘Just a funny gas pump,’ he replied with a smile. Turns out, everyone in town had been filling up for free ever since!’