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From www.pawtucketri.blogspot.com:
“At last, we have some information on the mystery project at the former gas station on East Ave. Thanks to my dogged journalism (driving past), I saw this banner being hung this afternoon. I spoke briefly with a worker who said they hope to open by the end of the month.”

For a brief stint it was a tire repair shop. Heard the asking price for it when it was on the market was around 200,000 back in 2001, maybe because of its proximity to the highway.

I've always really liked this building for its pointy roofline over the office. Always thought it would make a great design studio, or laundrymat, or something. Glad to see it is still in use, as another gas chain like Mobil could have easily bought the real estate and tore the building down.

Anecdotes

Kirk SnowI remember this as Gibby’s gas station from when I was a kid. I would have to ask my father, but I seem to recall that the family that ran it struggled to keep the business alive after they could not afford to keep up with federally mandated changes to the gas tanks. They existed for a while just as a mechanic shop. I’m not sure when the family had to finally close it all down.

Wayne Henderson  This is one of the thousands of such buildings built for Phillips Petroleum between 1957 and 1970. The concept was taken from some design elements in a Frank Lloyd Wright designed Phillips 66 station in Cloquet, MN. After completion of that building, the corporate architects modified the design to make it more usable for car care of the era and built literally thousands of these peaked canopy units. Many are still in use, even as Phillips 66 stations, although I haven’t seen an unmodified one in over 10 years (Rolla, MO, about 1992 comes to mind)

Emily  This is now a cafe – Jac’s (named for the abbreviation of the owner and his friends’ names :) – he’s really nice, the food is fresh and good, and they have live music sometimes on the weekend. Smoothies too.

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