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Before the advent of the self-service filling station in the 1970s, there was the full-service gas station.\xa0 Here, uniformed attendants pumped gas, checked your car\u2019s fluids, and even washed the windshield.\xa0\xa0

James and Ruby Wentworth of Meadville operated such a station during the 1940s. She recalls the demands of being a working wife and mother.