Jakie Watson, Sr. Service Station
Ted Pusser and Charles V. Rivers Service Station
Shell Motor Inn (Tom Miller and Rudolph Hursey)
Shell Motor Inn (Everett and Levy Smith)
Service Cleaners (John Robert Rivers)
Hurst Service Cleaners (Chap Hurst)
Thompson Service Cleaners (Bobby and Mavis Campbell Thompson)
Chesterfield Cleaners (Boyce Mabry)
Chesterfield Cleaners (Tony Campbell)
Katherine Ward Rivers Braswell: My father, Charles V. Rivers, and Ted Pusser had a filling station here in the 30’s.
James W. Jenkins: The Shell station that was located on this corner was set back on the lot, and the gas tanks were near the street. I think Tom Miller operated the station at one time. Everett Smith operated the station. Everett had lost one arm in an automobile accident, and it amazed me at the work he could do with one arm. Today Tony Campbell operates a dry cleaning shop here.
Elizabeth Ann Gaddy Rivers: A number of gasoline stations were operated at this location during the 20th century, but the one that I remember best is Shell Motor Inn, which was owned by Tom Miller and Rudolph Hursey. Chesterfield had never had such a modern, state-of-the-art station before. It was a full-service station that did it all–pumped gas, installed seat covers, sold and installed tires, washed and waxed cars, and serviced all kinds of vehicles. Tony Miller, Tom's son, told me that he worked there washing and polishing cars from about the time he was in the 8th grade through his senior year in high school. He also said that Tom bought an A-Model Ford coupe and painted it in the bright yellow and orange Shell colors and put the Shell insignia on the "cooter shell". He parked it out near the street, and it was a conversation piece. George Jenkins, Jim Jenkin's uncle and father of Bobby Jenkins and Sandra Jenkins Thurman, was the station's first manager; Legette Curtis also worked there. Tom and Rudolph sold the station to the Smith brothers, Everett and Levy. I believe that they ran it until John Robert Rivers purchased the site and moved Service Cleaners from across the street to this location; I don't know the date. Other owners of a dry cleaners at this location after John Robert were Chap Hurst, Robert (Bobby) and Mavis Campbell Thompson, and Boyce Mabry. The present owner is Tony Campbell, a nephew of Mavis Thompson.