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In 1926, a cluster of automotive-related businesses operated on or very near 10th Avenue NE in the University District. The Baird Motor Company sold a new Essex Coach automobile for $960, a Hudson Coach for $1,430 and a Hudson Brougham $1,690 at this dealership located on the corner of East 45th Street and 12 Avenue NE. The Howard Motor Company, a University District Ford Motor Company dealer, was located nearby at 1102 East 45th Street. A temporary Chrysler dealership, Jensen-Hannah Motor Company, Incorporated, stood, on 03/04/1926, at 100 East 40th Street ("just off 10th Avenue NE"). At this time, numerous auto repair garages lined 10th Avenue NE: at 4343 (Davenport's Super Service, Incorporated, owned by Ted Jungmaeyer), 4730 (Perfection Auto Top Company), 5222 (Olson and Wichser Garage), 5333 (A. Lans, aka "Big Gus," Auto Electrician), 5353 (Factory Finish Auto Enameling Company). Additionally, Gordon Stewart operated another garage off of 10th at 815 East 45th Street. An article in the 03/04/1926 issue of the University District Herald newspaper also described a new service station to be built at East 41st Street and 10th Avenue NE for Earl McKale, President of McKale's Incorporated. McKale said of the neighborhood: "After a careful analysis of motor traffic and automobile registration in the various districts of the city we selected the site at Forty-first and Tenth Northeast because it is there that we found the greatest number of cars and the heaviest traffic." (See "Super-Service Co. Buys 10th and 41st Corner," University District Herald, 03/04/1926, p. 11.)

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