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Marg Valentine (née Moore) and Bill Simpson Wait for Motorists at Moore’s Service Station, Coboconk

Black-and-white image of young woman in uniform and older man standing in front of vintage gasoline pump

Margaret Valentine Collection
Date: ca. 1940s

Laurie Moore purchased Coboconk’s British-American service station from Harry Jackson in the 1920s. After Mr. Moore died in 1939, a family friend named Bill Simpson offered to help his widow, Olive, run the business. Mr. Simpson is pictured here with their daughter, Margaret Moore, in the late 1940s. Towering behind them is a typical B-A gas pump of the period.