Speedway Photos
An old Speedway 79 station at 1644 W. Bancroft Street (Auburndale area)
Toledo, Ohio. Probably mid 1950s. Speedway 79 was a brand used by
Aurora Oil of Detroit from the 1930s to about 1960.
When Ashland bought Aurora in the 60s, they phased out Speedway 79,
but recently brought the name back as Speedway.
Photo is from the Images in Time collection of the
Toledo-Lucas County Public Library.
Used with their permission. Image inclusion suggested by Drew Sager.
I found the above interesting Speedway sign at a Speedway in Vandalia (Dayton), Ohio.
According to Marvin Pratt, that would have been a Bonded sign that Speedway reused.
It is on US 40 just west of I-75. Taken May 27, 2005 by John Cirillo.
Two shots of a smaller Speedway at 1901 Elmwood, Lafayette, Indiana.
Taken April 17, 2004 by John Cirillo.
Late in 2004 it was rebranded to Rich, a new secondary brand
created for lower-volume Speedway sites. Then in 2006 or thereabouts,
The entire station was torn down and rebuilt as a larger Speedway station.
This station began in 1964 as a Wake-Up station and remained
until Marathon bought out Wake-Up. It switched to Speedway around 1995,
and was a Speedway until the change to Rich in 2004, the when it was rebuilt
in 2006 it became Speedway again.
Here's an odd SpeedWay in Texarkana, AR at US 71 and I-30.
My guess is it's not related to Marathon's Speedway chain.
Taken July 11, 2004 by David Backlin.
Update: As of 2006, this is now a Mobil station.
A shot of the odd SpeedWay station above. There you can see
it is Powell's SpeedWay, probably a one-off station.
Taken July 11, 2004 by David Backlin.
This Meineke car repair shop on US 29 near Centreville, Virginia,
also sells Speedway gasoline. The stripes on the pumps indicate
that they once dispensed the Citgo brand. There are no conventional
Speedway or other Marathon-Ashland family stations in the area,
but Speedway tanker trucks are occasionally seen hereabouts and so
there may be a Marathon-Ashland jobber in the region.
Photo taken September 2003. Photo and text from Mike Jones.
Another view of the Meineke Muffler/Speedway location in Centreville, VA.
Taken September, 2003 by Mike Jones.
Speedway sign and station by Robert V. Droz.
Bartow, FL, 2002.
Above two from Mike Becker, Taken on Sept. 7, 2002.
Station located at Rt. 132 and Magnolia (two blocks east of Rt. 41),
Gurnee, IL.
Speedway station in Oscoda, MI, on US-23 north of town.
Station was built in 1985. Photo taken 5-27-2001 by Bobby Peacock.
Speedway on Dupont Rd. just west of I-69, north Fort Wayne, IN.
Photo taken Oct 17, 2003 by John Cirillo.