About this location
A few stories people tell about this place
1. At night, when the pumps clicked softly and the neon sign flickered, a little boy would run into the station, eyes wide with wonder. The attendant noticed him every time—always wearing the same red jacket, always clutching a toy truck. One evening, as he approached the counter, the boy pointed excitedly at something on the wall above the cash register. The attendant leaned up and followed the boy’s finger. There, above the register, was a faded poster of an old gas pump. ‘That one!’ the boy exclaimed. ‘It’s my favorite.’ The attendant smiled and said, ‘Well, son, that’s our very first pump. It’s special around here.’ And so, each night after closing, the attendant carefully polished that ancient pump until it shone like new, just for the little boy who never grew tired of admiring it.
2. At midnight, when the gas station’s clock radio played oldies and the cash register clicked like an impatient tick-tock, a delivery driver noticed something strange. Every time he filled up his truck, the price on the pump would briefly flash ‘Lucky Seven’ before returning to normal. Curious, the driver mentioned it to a neighbor who happened to be an amateur mechanic. Together they discovered that the old ticker in the clock radio was slightly off-kilter, causing the pumps to momentarily misbehave. From then on, whenever someone asked for gas after midnight, everyone at the station would shout, ‘Lucky Seven!’ — just for fun.
3. At dusk, when the pumps hummed quietly and the lights cast long shadows on the parking lot, an old man noticed something peculiar in one of the gas station’s shopping carts. Curious, he peered inside and found a half-eaten sandwich wrapped in an old newspaper from last week. With a smile, he decided it was probably left there by some hungry worker during their break. To this day, locals joke that ‘76’ might be the only place where you can get lunch delivered right into your car—if you wait long enough.
4. At dawn, when the world around the fuel station was still asleep, a delivery driver noticed something odd. The thermometer outside read an impossible temperature—negative twenty degrees, even though the sun had already risen. Curious, he checked inside and found the thermometer’s little red button pushed in—a prank from a local mechanic who liked to tease him. Shaking his head with a smile, the delivery driver adjusted the reading and went on his way, muttering, ‘Another day, another joke from old Fred.’