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Mitten's Travel Plaza History
    by Gary, President  

The station was built in 1967 and and opened in 1968.  Skelly was building 27 truck stops and we were one of 
those truck stops.  They leased them to individuals and Jim was one of them.  He then purchased the site 
several years later.  The truck stop was known by the slogan "The Truck stop owned and operated by a trucker."

Jim asked Gary and Toni if they would come back from college and operate it and they accepted.

It was a 1 bay truck stop without any truck wash.  They provided a restaurant, sleeping quarters and showers, oil changes and tire repair.  Fuel prices were $ .36 per gallon.  When they first opened fuel was 27.9 cents.

It started out as Skelly.  Getty oil bought Skelly in 1970's and in 1982 Texaco bought Getty.  Chevron bought Texaco in 2004 and they went with shell supplier at that time and continue to fly Shell's flag                                     

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By 1982 we had the canape', became Texaco and we had added a wash bay and started washing trucks.

In 1990 's we closed the wash bay and remodeled and the bays became offices, showers and a dining room for the cafe'.  The shop was relocated southeast of the truck stop into a 4 bay shop with wash bay.

We are half way between Denver and Kansas City on Interstate Highway #70 and are one of the major truck stops between Denver and Kansas City in the state of Kansas.

Jack Mitten Family ran the restaurant from the early 70's until Jack retired in 1998.

Jerry joined Mitten Inc. in 1995 and that is when the bulk oil delivery was established.

 

THROUGHOUT THE FULL 38 YEARS MITTEN TRUCK STOP HAS BEEN OPENED FOR BUSINESS 24/7

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