3920 MINNETONKA BLVD.

This gas station saw a lot of turnover.

1935:  Willard Werner’s Cities Service


1938-40:  C. Lester Orchard’s Cities Service

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1941:  Park Cities Service, Neal Swart, proprietor

1943-44:  Park Cities Service, Mike (Milo N.) Sorenson, proprietor

9/1948:  Eddy Larsen’s Shell Service


1951:  Bob Barnum’s Shell

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1952:  Sunset Shell

1956:  Cities Service, Evelyn Hawkinson, proprietor


The building was apparently rebuilt in 1958.

1960:  Park Shell

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1960


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By 1968 it was a Pure Oil Station.

In 1965 Pure Oil had merged with Union Oil; all Pure Oil stations became Union 76 in the spring of 1970.  This station became Glenhurst Union 76.

The building was torn down in about 1987.