Chief Askew's Diary: Feb. 24,1930

Drunks caught behind filling station; now ubiquitous, they were once quite novel (the filling stations, not the drunks)

Officers Atchinson and Vaughan “got a couple of white men at Poagi’s filling station after midnight (both drunk),” the chief reported.

“Filling station” was the original term for a gas station or service station, and the first purpose-built one in the United States opened in St. Louis, Missouri in 1905, according to Wikipedia. It took another eight yea…