Now and Then: Bolton Oil Company

The Bolton Oil Company has been in operation in Lubbock since 1949 when Durwood Bolton opened his first service station at 38th and Avenue Q. Bolton returned to Lubbock after service in World War II and lived with his wife in a small house on the corner of 38th Street and Avenue Q. Backed by Ohlenbusch Oil Company, Bolton remodeled his garage and opened his own gas station in 1949. Today, there are six Bolton gas stations and a self-storage business managed by Durwood Bolton’s sons and grandsons. Notice the price of gas?

- from the Historic Lubbock County, Facebook page

Quotes from Winston Churchill

If Britain must choose between Europe and the open sea, she must always choose the open sea.

The main vice of capitalism is the uneven distribution of prosperity. The main vice of socialism is the even distribution of misery.

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.