See Whiting Brothers Sign, San Fidel, New Mexico

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See the ruins of a Ruins Of Whiting Brothers Gas Station along New Mexico State Road 124, the original Route 66, passes through the community. San Fidel, New Mexico. Whiting Brothers was a chain of gasoline stations established in 1926 and based in St. Johns and Holbrook, Arizona. At its peak, it operated more than a hundred filling stations (including at least forty on the former U.S. Route 66), fifteen motels and various truck stops under a slogan of "quality gas for less". The business began to decline in the 1970s due to fuel shortages and a drop in traffic at its locations on the US Highway system as these roads were bypassed by Interstate highways. Stations in still-viable locations were sold off individually by the 1980s while many locations on roads long bypassed were simply abandoned.

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