Big Brand Tire & Service (Tucson, Arizona)

 automobile repair shop, historical building, tire shop

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This was originally Cookey's Union Service, built in 1948. Beginning in the 1930's, industrial designers introduced Machine Age styling into automobile designs, and this concept was carried into the design of the ubiquitous service station. The new sophisticated style was called Streamline Moderne. Cookey's not only expresses this popular trend, but physically represents the growing importance of the automobile in sprawling, suburban Tucson. The material palette combines to create the crisp edges and rounded corners of the awning and service canopy and has two service bays and a glass enclosed office. Source: Tucson Historic Preservation Foundation

Before Big Brand Tire & Service opened here, it was Jimmy's Broadway Automotive.