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This little gas station in McLean, Texas has been standing since 1928. According to Phillips company it was the first Phillips 66 station approved to be built in Texas.

I took the photo on a Polaroid, albeit a modern one. Edwin Land filed the patent that would eventually lead to instant photography the year after this station opened.

The first Polaroid went on sale in 1948 for $89.75, which sounds cheap, but it was the equivalent of about $1,200 in today's dollars. By then the McLean Phillips 66 station had been pumping gas for 20 years.

This cute little Tudor-styled station pumped gas for weary travelers for nearly 50 years before closing in 1977. A local group restored it in 1992 in hopes of drawing tourists off of the interstate that bypassed McLean. It certainly drew me.

Life before 70 MPH speed limits was just a little slower it seems. A gas station stop was a reprieve from a long bumpy road. An "instant" photo still took 60 seconds to reveal itself.

Great stories take time to develop. Thankfully for us at TCR, there are plenty all over Texas to capture.

It’s not easy, but it is possible to make a beer out of only Texas ingredients. It takes a lot of collaboration from folks all throughout the Texas agriculture community.

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Grab a cup of coffee and hop in as we see the magic happen all across our state.

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