While Visiting Jerome
On your way into town....
Visit The Station
A Marketplace of Specialty Shops
- The Quilt Shop -- Specialty Gifts and Home Dec
Quilts & Comforters -- Southwest & Ethnic Gifts -- Antiques & Books
- Patrick O'Shea Antiques -- Collectibles & Local Color
Local Stock Certificates, Paper, Local Artifacts
Hold the World Record for Street Electric Vehicals
- Savidge Leathers -- Unique Custom Leather Designs.
The Station now occupies the original site of Fred's Garage, a landmark filling station located in old Jerome. Built in the early 1920's (authenticated as existing in 1929) this 2800 sq. ft. building housed a filling station and repair facility for large mining equipment. The Station was a Richfield station (circa 1940), possibly a Chevron Station and possibly others throughout its history. After it closed in 1953, after the demise of mining in Jerome, it remained vacant until Jerome began rebuilding in the seventies.
Stories abound about the old tin building with the old fashioned gas station facade. Visitors returning to Jerome remember sneaking across the street from the high school for smokes between classes. One old timer, a DJ at the local radio station in his youth, used to put on a record, run up the street to Fred's Garage for a snack, and make it back before the record ended.
Fred's Garage became The Station in 1985, operated by Judie Piner, owner of The Station and designer of the quilts in The Quilt Shop.
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