At 1000 East Fairview, more particularly located in the tiny triangle formed by the 5-Points intersection of Fairview, Cloverdale Road and Woodley. Parker is my nephew, and I am most proud of the very successful business he has built. But us old timers live in the past, and when I pass this corner I still see the bustling, red and white, full service “Standard Oil Filling Station” that occupied this building and tiny site for 50 years. The triangle was so narrow, that your car would stick out into traffic unless you correctly positioned your car by one of the three pumps. When I moved here in 1951, Fairview was a really grand street, and it was said that this station pumped more gas than any other station in Montgomery. Well, it was a busy corner, and back then the Troy Highway (US 231) came right up Woodley and turned onto Fairview alongside the station.

A little follow-up, In 1970 this was still a Standard Station, but by 1975 it was a tennis shop. Five years later it had become a graphics studio. In 1990 it had morphed into a Capital City Laundry outlet, and toward the end of that decade the location picked up its present name. I guess all this makes Parker’s operation an acorn of the former laundry giant.

-Charles Humphries