Another Fruitvale(NOT ROSEDALE)landmark is going under. I am speaking of the gas station at the corner of Rosedale Hwy. and Mohawk Dr. This is the original strip of Mohawk that ran south from the hiway to the Mohawk refinery, now the Flying J refinery. Before the Truxtun Extension was built there was no Mohawk south of the river. Anyway, back to the gas station. It's last incarnation was as a Shell, before that a Texaco, all the way back to it's original oil company name, Mohawk. There were a few Mohawk stations scattered around town, but this is the only one I associated with my childhood. I am sure that, even had the company survived mergers, buyouts and takeovers, it would not have survived political correctness. You see, the Mohawk logo was an Indian brave in profile with the word "Mohawk" to the right of the circular part of the sign that pictured the Indian, the letters somehow looked Indian and I always thought it was the very coolest of all the oil company logos. At one point, the station was owned(a franchise I am certain)by a family friend named Grover Cannon. When I was about six, a tanker truck took the corner at the station too fast, flipped over and burned the whole thing to the ground. Mom and I still have pictures of that mess. When I started driving in 1975 it was still a Mohawk and I bought gas there occasionally. I remember when it changed names(I don't remember to what), but I didn't really think much about it then. The last time I got gas there was last winter on the way to work late at night. I yakked with the gal working there a bit, and a few days later, saw her working at Home Depot. The next time I drove by the Shell, it was closed, When I drove by last Thursday it was a pile of rubble. I don't know what will replace it, but it will almost certainly not be another gas station. There is so very little left of the little stretch of Rosdeale Hwy. I knew as a child. If I was a drinking man, I'd toast the old station, but I'm not, so I'll just mope.