The M&H gas station on Superior Street in Duluth underwent some changes this week. I noticed driving by that they were getting their canopy updated and a fresher look. I was happy to see that because it's a sign that they are investing in the long-standing gas station and that it will hopefully be around for years to come.

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The M&H has always been one of the cheapest places in town to get gas. I remember my dad always pointing to the M&H sign growing up when we would drive by on I-35 to check on gas prices when we got back to town.

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So what's the story with M&H anyway? Did you know they have multiple locations across the Midwest, even going as far south as Missouri?

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Their headquarters is in Hudson Wisconsin, and you can see here what the M and the H stand for. The headquarters is Miller & Holmes, Inc. It's named after the founders of the company that wasn't even a gas station when they started back in 1896. They were a wholesaler of butter, cheese, eggs, fruit, and produce.

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Then 11 years later in 1907 they opened up a creamery and added poultry to their product line. With the introduction of automobiles, the company shifted direction decades later.

In 1931 they opened their first gas station, and by the time World War II was over, they dropped the butter, creamy, and poultry line and focused on selling gasoline and diesel fuel.

LOOK: See how much gasoline cost the year you started driving

To find out more about how has the price of gas changed throughout the years, Stacker ran the numbers on the cost of a gallon of gasoline for each of the last 84 years. Using data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (released in April 2020), we analyzed the average price for a gallon of unleaded regular gasoline from 1976 to 2020 along with the Consumer Price Index (CPI) for unleaded regular gasoline from 1937 to 1976, including the absolute and inflation-adjusted prices for each year.

Read on to explore the cost of gas over time and rediscover just how much a gallon was when you first started driving.

 

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