It’s time once again for #FlashbackFriday with the Whitewater Historical Society. A few weeks ago, this building, on the Milwaukee Street bridge, was demolished. We found a photo, probably from the 1970s, of this building when it was Baker’s Garage, an AMC, Jeep, and GMC truck dealership and service station run by Harley Baker. The building was constructed in 1924 as a modern filling station for the O’Neil Oil and Paint company and became a D-X service station in the 1940s. Harley Baker acquired the building in 1948 after operating a garage at his home on North Street for a number of years. After the dealership and garage closed, Baker’s daughter, Donna Baker Henry, remodeled the building for offices.

Join us next week for more from the Whitewater Historical Society.

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