- June 30, 2021
- Posted by: Stratford Team
- Category: Business
Dr. Tim O’Kelley entered a vehicle and drove in the recent Steve Smith Memorial Cruise-In on June 11 in Atlanta. It was his first time at the event.
He had a special reason, and not just the fact that he’d recently acquired and remodeled a 1932 four-cylinder Ford with the name of his parents and their service station on its doors.
“I did it because it shows I had oil and grease in my blood and did a lot of the work there in Bloomburg in my growing up days,” Dr. O’Kelley said, now a family physician in Atlanta.
His parents were Edward and Laura Jean Harrist O’Kelley, who for a time operated a Gulf Service Station on the west corner of Main Street next to the tall, red brick building which would be the Arklatex Movie Theater. It would also be the post office, too, for a time.
An interesting note is that to go along with the Gulf gasoline and oil service station in Bloomburg there once was a Gulf Hotel which had been built in 1895 by T.J….
