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The following photo dates from 1982 and also provides a view of the sign and its then - angled pole: Attempts were made, but information could not be located with respect to the date when the interior of the sign, with the "Standard" graphics and letters, was removed. It is also not known for certain whether the sign was ever anything other than a sign for Standard. Today, the sign does not have any color, lettering, or graphics. In 2005, Silco Oil (a company with which Waldo Prather was affiliated) sold 947 Front to Lion Gas Company, which sold it the same month to Louisville Gas and Grocery. Waldo Prather died in 2013. As of 2015, the owner is KLT Gas & Grocery, Inc. The preceding research is based on a review of relevant and available online County property records, census records, oral history interviews, Louisville directories, and Louisville Historical Museum maps, files, obituary records, and historical photographs from the collection of the Louisville Historical Museum. 3