Bristow Tire Shop

115 W. 4th St., Bristow, OK
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East < GO > West

The original Bristow Tire Shop was built in 1923 as a service station that sold gas, oil, tires, inner tubes, onsite service and towing, etc. Tires and towing were especially valuable to early Route 66 travelers. They stopped selling gas and took the pumps out in 1955, leaving tires and repair services as the main business

The Italian Renaissance Revival station has a hipped, tin tile roof with walls of white and blue glazed bricks. The original building consists of a small, square, brick office with arched windows. Two gas pumps would have been located on the island between the brick front columns. The original little glazed brick building is easily sorted out from the later addition(s) in back.

One really neat feature of the station is the original pressed tin ceiling which is still in place under the pump canopy.

Maybe even neater than the tin ceiling is the light globes that read Bristow Tire & Auto. The station was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.

Photo(s): 2016