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The directory record, to 1940 and the present
What the automobile did in North Liberty, it did on Main Street, as trade. The district nomination's inventory carries a Service Garage of about 1935 among the town's contributing buildings — the motor age built into the commercial district's fabric. The 1940 directory transcribed in the banks leg fills in the trade at that date: the Bare & Heim Service Station, Hazelbaker's Phillips 66, and Poynter's Service Station — three fuel-and-service houses in a town of under a thousand, the gasoline street in miniature. The dealerships' whole course is this build's dealerships leg and is pointed to, not retold; the first garages' and agencies' names before 1940 stand as a named gap, its settler the Polk directories read as a run. The culture close is brief and true: the cruise and the drive-in of this township's memory are the county's, seated on its highways and in its larger towns, and no drive-in theatre on North Liberty ground was found in the record reached.