Husky Gas Station - 417 King St North, Waterloo (Closed)

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On the list of properties that have been successfully redeveloped, I believe the current HSBC building at King/William in Waterloo was a service station many years ago.

That was a dinner as far back as  I remember which is a couple of decades or more. 

I stand corrected, according to this 1929 Waterloo Fire Map, Dietrich's Garage was further north on King, somewhere under the LCBO/Channer's building.  The Alexander House Hotel was at the corner of King and William.  The Guelph Mercury also did a piece on that stretch of King Street in 2011, but I digress.

By 1942 according to this fire insurance map, the Alexander House Hotel had disappeared to be replaced by an Esso station though the hotel garage survived (listed as "Alexander Garage" on the map).  From the looks of the service station footprint, the building must have survived until Quizno's moved out and the HSBC building replaced it.

You can see both the Texaco and Esso service stations in this 1960 photo, taken from the Waterloo Public Library collection, looking north from William and King.: