Photography: Gas station

As Flimsy, DelRoady and I were driving around looking for abandoned places to visit, we spotted this gas station with the old “Twin Oaks Gas” sign hanging off of it’s pole as though it were pointing at the truck lot across the street.

This poor sign is literally hanging by a thread, and the gas station building is not much better. What really interests me is that there is absolutely no sign of former pumps – it looks like they were all taken up, holes filled, and then the whole thing covered with gravel.

All that’s left is basically this shack of a gas station, which at one point featured a garage for auto repair. The whole mess is situated right before the Illinois side of the Chain of Rocks Bridge, which is known as the site of the murder of two young women in 1991.

We entered the gas station through an open door in the back and discovered that there was an uncovered pit remaining – once used to work on cars from below without a lift. Flimsy climbed in…

Undead zombie mechanic rises from the pit! (!!!)

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