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Downtown Gas 1912

Downtown Gas in 1912.

Scrugg's Pool Hall

Gas was big enough to support three pool halls while the smelters, brick plants and cement plant were operating.

Gas Boarding House

Gas Elementary School

Gas Elementary School.

This was one of many boarding houses in Gas which served as long-term hotels for the single men who flocked into the area to take the industrial jobs the gas boom created.  Both meals and lodging were provided.

 


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This site is maintained by Randy Crowell, Gas, Kansas
Posted: March 18, 1998

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