Hughes Oil Co. Service Station
Title
Hughes Oil Co. Service Station
Description
A scan of a sepia toned photo showing a man standing in front of the Hughes Oil Co. Service Station on East Villard in Dickinson. The station was next to the St. Charles Hotel on the corner of First Avenue East. Leon Stuck, the man in the photo, ran the business at the time.
Date
Between 1922-1925
Date Submitted
1/10/2025
Contributor
This item was contributed by Martin Ucovich.
Rights
This image cannot be copied or reproduced. This image may be freely used for educational use, so long as it is not altered in any way. No commercial reproduction or distribution of this image file is permitted.
Spatial Coverage
Dickinson, ND
Address
41 East Villard
Cataloguer's Notes
Message from the contributor:
"Attached is a picture of the service station my grandparent's operated in Dickinson North Dakota. It was sometime between 1924 - 1937 . My grandfather Leon H. Stuck was born in 1883 in Wisconsin . He was orphaned at the age of 12 years old . He became a cowboy to support himself . He at one time worked on the Theodore Roosevelt ranch . He then enlisted in the US army . At one time he lead a military squad that patrolled the Mexican American border . He was then shipped off to France during WW1 . It was while he was in France , he was hit by machine gun fire that blow off a portion of his skull . A fellow soldier carried him for over a mile to a first aid station . He was then send by ship to London where they did one of the first metal implants in a humans skull. He survived this injury , but was legally blind from the injury . Bound and determined to support his wife and new family , Leon ran the Hughes Oil Co. Service Station . My mother Evelyn Stuck , the daughter of Gladys and Leon Stuck , said that Leon struggled running the service station due to his lost vision . In 1939 the family moved to Santa Cruz CA. Leon , continued to work even with his disability . He worked as a dishwasher at one of the concession on the Santa Cruz Board Walk . My grandfather never ever complained in life , he was a very strong and positive man . He was married to my Grandmother for over 50 years before he passed away at the age of 90 years old . My Grandfather Leon Stuck all the way to the left facing the picture (photographer)."
"Attached is a picture of the service station my grandparent's operated in Dickinson North Dakota. It was sometime between 1924 - 1937 . My grandfather Leon H. Stuck was born in 1883 in Wisconsin . He was orphaned at the age of 12 years old . He became a cowboy to support himself . He at one time worked on the Theodore Roosevelt ranch . He then enlisted in the US army . At one time he lead a military squad that patrolled the Mexican American border . He was then shipped off to France during WW1 . It was while he was in France , he was hit by machine gun fire that blow off a portion of his skull . A fellow soldier carried him for over a mile to a first aid station . He was then send by ship to London where they did one of the first metal implants in a humans skull. He survived this injury , but was legally blind from the injury . Bound and determined to support his wife and new family , Leon ran the Hughes Oil Co. Service Station . My mother Evelyn Stuck , the daughter of Gladys and Leon Stuck , said that Leon struggled running the service station due to his lost vision . In 1939 the family moved to Santa Cruz CA. Leon , continued to work even with his disability . He worked as a dishwasher at one of the concession on the Santa Cruz Board Walk . My grandfather never ever complained in life , he was a very strong and positive man . He was married to my Grandmother for over 50 years before he passed away at the age of 90 years old . My Grandfather Leon Stuck all the way to the left facing the picture (photographer)."
Physical Location
This digital item was contributed to the SWNDDA by a contributor and a physical copy is not owned by the Dickinson Museum Center.
Ordering Info
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Collection
Citation
“Hughes Oil Co. Service Station,” Southwestern North Dakota Digital Archive At the Dickinson Museum Center, accessed June 17, 2026, https://dmc.omeka.net/items/show/1132888.
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