Today I continue my quest in creating and posting one block a day of the fabulous That Town And Country Quilt by the lovely Susan Claire. This is day eighty-eight of that project.

This quilt blocks shows a blue standing sign with the words, — Click To Enlarge

Bob’s Petrol.

I know gas isn’t called petrol here, but I’ve always liked the sound of it.

I named this little station Bob’s Petrol because my father’s name was Bob, and as a young man, he worked in service stations a lot. He owned a bulk plant behind a service station when he got older. He would tell me about when there were gas price wars (when fuel would drop to a quarter for a gallon of gas).

Attendants would go and wash all the windows on the block, trying to bring favor to their particular station.

In the late 1960s, my grandfather bought a lot in town to use as a parking lot for the Granby Drug Store. On the purchased lot, there was a service station.

Part of the purchase deal was to move the station off the lot. So my mom and dad dug a hole and built a concrete block foundation. Then they moved that building onto the foundation. In time they turned it into the house I grew up in.

That house is still there, right next door to the house my husband and I built and raised our children in.