The Cucamonga Service Station was built by Henry Klusman in 1915 on the State Route that ten years later was designated as U.S. Route 66. This type and style of station was one of the few remaining of the thousands that once greeted travelers along U.S. Route 66. William Harvey was the first owner, and in 1925 Ancil Morris purchased the station and became a Richfield distributor. Arvid “Chief” Lewis, Cucamonga’s first fire chief, owned the station from 1945 until it closed in 1971. In April 2009 the City Council of Rancho Cucamonga designated it a city historical landmark, and in 2013 Route 66 Inland Empire California took title to the station and began restoring it. The station reopened in August 2015 as a Route 66 museum.
