Soulby's Shell service station on Route 66 |
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Restored Shell, petrol, gas station on Route 66 at Mount Olive, Illinois. Mount Olive is a city in Macoupin County, Illinois, in the Saint Louis metro area. Soulsby's Shell Station on was one of the longest operating service stations on Route 66, the Mother Road. Soulsby's was in operation from 1926 until the early 90's. Russell Soulsby inherited the station from his father Henry, who constructed it in order to have a business to pass on to his son, and the landmark would pump gas until 1991, almost fifty years after the Route 66 designation had been removed from the pavement in front of it. Mount Olive is known as the resting place of Irish born Mother Jones, hero to union workers who toiled in the coal mines of Macoupin County.
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