Fire Chief gas is advertised for 21 cents per gallon. Premium, or Sky Chief, is 23 cents. Sadly, there is no gas to sell at those prices. In this place next to Calk's house at 1201 Perry St. in Coleman, painter Norman Rockwell would have felt right at home. Out back, behind the row of stores, are more than a dozen pieces of farm equipment, most fully functional and designed to be pulled by horses.
Calk has no horses.
He can't explain why he has gone to so much trouble to erect the displays. Calk's piddlin' is of the dedicated sort. Calk's wife, Dora, willingly pitches in with the work. Calk was bitten by the building bug when a Coleman friend closed his gas station and gave Calk the station's tall red and white Texaco sign. I'll just go ahead and build a gas station to go with the sign.