When contractors for the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet begin on the new Kentucky 139 Princeton Road and KY 124 Cerulean Road intersection in Cadiz this week — and the little old brick building gets ripped down — one family will take just a few moments to reminisce, and think about a life that once was.
From 1930 until 2002, through the careful stewardship of O.C. Dyer and later Homer and Nella Wilson, a petrol station eventually shifted into the ever-popular Wilson’s Market — a one-stop shop for anyone headed to the Trigg County Recreation Complex, Caldwell County, Cerulean, Black Hawk, I-24 or beyond.
One of three Wilson children, Lynn said “it was simply time.”
Born in 1960, nearly a decade after Homer joined up with his Uncle Dyer, Lynn said the store life “was their normal” — especially growing up in the building, and in that part of the community.
The way the story was told to him, Lynn added his Great Uncle Dyer had the information and the insight to put up a brick-and-mortar fueling location near the construction of converging roadways near Cadiz.
Over the years, one piece at a time, upgrades changed the property’s profile.
And it’s the people, he noted, that made it special.
If there is anything Lynn misses, he said it’s “the customers” — describing a time in which business was less impersonal, less digital, less transactional, and more direct, friendly and forthright.
Officials with KYTC have indicated the road realignment and reconstruction should be completed by November 15.
