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Silver Moon Restaurant, Motel & Texaco

2545 Route 66
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The Silver Moon business complex grew from Eddie McBee's Texaco station to include the Silver Moon Restaurant and eventually the Silver Moon Motel. The restaurant is still operating under the Silver Moon name, The motel is a Budget Inn, and the former Texaco gas station is now just a towing and repair shop. The cafe and station had apparently been in business before 1959 because a news article that year said McBee, owner of the gas station was hoping to reopen the cafe "soon". A Silver Moon Station was mentioned in a 1948 Texaco Santa Rosa newspaper ad.

xI haven't found a date when the the motel became a Budget Inn. The gas station is off to the right in this photo.

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