Monday, August 19, 2024

Chevron on the Circle (Waco, Texas)

Chevron as Chevron. Courtesy McLennan Appraisal District.
The "Circle Chevron" (food mart/garage/auto shop) has been here since at least 1980 (Circle Gulf in those days, converted in the late 1980s) and shut down sometime in the late 2000s or very early 2010s (the Chevron signage was gone by December 2007—likely not wanting to upgrade to the current signage).

There's a photo taken by someone else in July 2012, shortly before demolition. It was replaced with a 7-Eleven (re-entering town with several new locations) but it took down Chevron's tall sign, as well and opened in late 2012/early 2013 and shut down around January 2019, likely because of the Stripes merger. (7-Eleven now has a store a block away where Stripes was)...or because the Circle got a repaint in 2018 to meet modern traffic patterns. Either way, the gas canopy was removed and it has sat vacant since.

The old address as Chevron was 2600 La Salle Avenue but 7-Eleven changed it to 2524 La Salle Avenue.

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