Checking oil and washing windows: Heckendorn recalls glory days of Newton service stations

Dean Heckendorn, left, talks to Bob Schmidt outside of the service station Heckendorn used to own and run. Wendy Nugent/Newton Now

By Wendy Nugent, Newton Now Forty years. That's a lifetime for some people. Forty years ago was 1978, when bell bottoms, peace signs, muscle cars...

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