To record, preserve, interpret, and display the history of Kingston, Washington
Old Gas Station, Now Filling Station Bar & Grill
Bob Lair, the village “Smithy,” was a renown storyteller, blacksmith, and machinist. He also operated a gas station in the 1920s that Ralph H. Carlaw remodeled in the 1930s. It became Paul Nichol’s Farm Store in the 1950s and the Holding Lane Tavern in the late 1990s. It is now the Filling Station Bar and Grill. Lair is at left with his trusted dog, Blackie, and Cecil VanKeuren. (Photograph from Jim Harmon and Jan Brill; courtesy of Kingston Historical Society)
