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by fred giveans - "That was my dads station. He w"
Clint's Esso station at the corner of Orchard and Oakland.
Barry Gordon relates a story about Clint's Esso in a recent email:
I was just telling a friend about walking downtown after school from Hamilton Avenue and stopping at Buttercup Givean's gas station to hear Russ Hodges announce Bobby Thompson's home run, "....the Giants win the pennant, the Giants win the pennant.." and here you have a photo of exactly where I heard that (Clint's Esso). Who was Clint?
Thanks Barry for the interesting piece of history. I had forgotten the name "Buttercup." I'm guessing that was Clint. Maybe someone will tell us.
Sorry, I was a bit mixed up. Apparently "Buttercup" Giveans owned the station at the time of the Giants-Dogers playoff and it was later sold to Clint Doty, husband of Marcella Doty, a WHS English teacher. I believe that they were parents of Glen Doty, early 1950s WHS athlete and later a sports reporter for the Middletown Hearld/Record. ... from Roy Elston's Storefront Gallery
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