Four Baggers and Foreclosures

Here's a quick story of the long closed Total gas station, on Highway 10, at the Anoka/Ramsey border. It's been revived into something completely different now, so I'm going to talk about what it was. That would be during its in-between phase. Purgatory between a failed gas station and it's next use, be it a demolition or remodel. I'm nowhere near finished with any of the other four stories I have going right now, so this works now. September 21, 2015. Driving west on Highway 10, entering Ramsey. Something catches my eye... Peeking out from behind the overgrown trees and shrubs is a cute little abandoned Total gas station! I haven't seen Total gas stations in years! To give this story some backbone, I was required to put in a little work to find out the history of the Total gas station chain. But man, after 10 minutes, the idea of reading about 100 years of corporate mergers and acquisitions made me too bored to care. I'll sum up their 100 years with this: W...