America’s Forgotten Tea Room Filling Stations | Eater
"Located just off Route 1 in Ashland, this once-combined tea room and filling station catered to motorists with gas pumps and a homey roadside restaurant atmosphere; on Sundays it advertised 75-cent dinners featuring fried chicken or Smithfield ham and drew business from the highway’s growth after paving and widening in the 1920s–30s. The name echoed a contemporary comic strip, and by the mid-20th century the operation had removed or stopped advertising its pumps; the building was later demolished and the site is now occupied by an auto parts store." - Nick Mancall-Bitel
