While most of us get by with having a neat piece of automobilia hanging from the wall or maybe a shelf of cool car stuff in our home to signify our love of things that make noise and go vroom-vroom, some guys really do it right. Michael Flurry is a Lake Charles, Louisiana police officer who saw the old 1940s art deco style gas station while on patrol and after admiring the old abandoned building day after day and week after week, he bought it with the intention of turning it into a place to live. As you’d imagine this was a more interesting and difficult process than simply moving into a new house and we think that dude crushed it. He managed to keep a lot of the character of the old gas station while updating the place into a shockingly nice pad.

One of the things that always strikes me as so interesting when traveling around the country is how many old stations are sitting there abandones by the side of the road. Some of them are not aged enough to have the character that this place had but lots are. Abandoned gas stations interest me because it seems like a business that should essentially be viable until the end of the internal combustion engine but for reasons both self inflicted and otherwise stations close and it seems rather than vanishing most stand as monuments to their era. This building looks like it could have been and old Hess or Esso station. Who knows, really. Now though? Now it is a home for a guy and his family and we think that there’s lots of BangShifty coolness in here.

He managed to keep the old tire rack, he has one of the old pumps, and there’s a definite historic feel to the place that is combined with lots of nice modern touches. We have no idea what the guy laid out to buy the station but we bet it was dirt cheap. This type of thing may be impossible in many parts of the country because it would likely require soil testing and all the other stuff before the property was sold. Are the old tanks still in the ground? That’s a question that is not answered here.

Either way, this house is great and the old station lives a new and happy life!

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