Self-serve gasoline stations are an item of the past where a station attendant would check your oil, wash your windshield and fill the tank. Some stations would open a glass bottle of Coke and pour it on a windshield to cut through dust and grime.

If you haven’t visited the Grove City Welcome Center and Museum, 3378 Park Street behind Planks, recently, it’s time for a return trip. Always something new and exciting to see and its free. Open Tuesday-Friday, 10-4 and Saturday 9-Noon. Group tours available by calling 614-277-3061.

Adam Grant, left, shows off the first bicycle people saw in Grove City. Since Grant owned a street railway from Grove City to a switching station at Greenlawn Cemetery, his bike most likely wasn’t competition. The crowd numbered more than 50 people.

This old mill is located on Rt. 762 between Harrisburg and Orient on Big Darby Creek at the abandoned steel bridge. There is no identifiable name on the building. It doesn’t appear to be the old Harrisburg Roller Mill once operated by W. W. Coontz. Anyone who can identify this building please send a note to swfchsohio@gmail.com. The Harrisburg Roller Mill, also pictured on the website, sold Glad Tidings flour in 50-pound sacks and another product known as Splendid Flour.

Are you aware there is a Sept. 11, 2001 memorial in Grove City? It can be viewed at the Jackson Township station at 4900 Buckeye Parkway. The beam was removed from the wreckage of the World Trade Center after the infamous terrorist attack.