'World's Smallest Gas Station' may rise again in Detroit Lakes

'World's Smallest Gas Station' may rise again in Detroit Lakes

DETROIT LAKES, Minn. — The “World’s Smallest Gas Station,” which was pumping gasoline to motorists in Detroit Lakes, Minnesota, more than 100 years ago, wasn’t always so little. A photo from 1921 shows a brick structure with a roofed drive-through outside the Graystone Hotel. But the famous gas station shrank through the years as the city grew and needed the space. By 1937, when it was featured in “Ripley’s Believe It or Not,” the space inside t…