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Earl McKale, President of McKale's Incorporated, purchased a land parcel at the corner of East 41st Street and 10th Avenue NE in 03/1926, in order to open a new service station. At the time, a great number of automotive-related businesses on 10th Avenue NE in Seattle's University District. 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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