Service Station

Many years ago Mantua’s Main Street was actually part of highway 89. At the location that is now “Wyatt Park” was a service station. It was owned and operated by John Isaacson. Mr. Isaacson lived in the home that Frank Gonzales now owns.

When the service station was in operation there was no road on the south-side-boundary of Wyatt Park. There were merely two tire tracks through the weeds. It is now a main thoroughfare for those living at the far south end of the valley, to get in and out of Mantua.

Leon Johnson (my father in law) and John Isaacson were friends. Leon told me that one day a couple of men got into an argument that turned into a fist fight inside of the gas station. In the chaos they knocked over a lot of things including the stove pipe of the wood burning stove. That stove was the only source of heat inside the service station.

After the service station was closed down, John Isaacson moved the original service station building to a location behind his home in north Mantua where it remain to this day.

NOTE:

Thanks to Leon Johnson, Tamara Larkin and Bryce Jeppsen for much of this information.