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Tom Love had done a stint in the Marines and had excelled at college football, according to the Daily Oklahoman. He dropped out of school early, however, to pursue an entrepreneurial path. He tried ventures such as restaurants and car washes before discovering opportunity in abandoned gas stations.
Perhaps business--and oil--ran in his blood. According to the Shawnee News-Star, his father F. Love had been president of petrochemical giant Kerr-McGee Corp. After leasing their first filling station in Watonga, the Loves soon opened others in nearby small towns. Their company, called Musket Corp. In Love's opened its first combination convenience store and gas station in Guymon, Oklahoma.
These eventually became known as Country Stores. Love's Country Stores Inc. By the end of the decade, the enterprise had more than stations.
The company began focusing on interstate locations in the s. Its first Travel Stop opened in Amarillo, Texas, in The Travel Stop concept featured amenities geared toward truckers and RV drivers, such as showers, mail drops, and laundry machines. Love's began the s with convenience stores and truck stops, 70 of them in Oklahoma. It had about 2, employees. In , the company was named Corporation of the Year by a local chapter of Sales and Marketing Executives International.
Love's began adding branded food outlets to the Travel Stop concept in the early s. An Oklahoma City location had a Grandy's restaurant by In , a Taco Bell Express was added to another site.
Others followed the next year, as well as Pizza Hut express operations at some stores. The new national fast-food brands boosted sales not only of food, but fuel as well. Some stores offered food by all three licensees--Grandy's, Taco Bell, and Pizza Hut, and some sold it 24 hours a day. All of Love's stores were company owned; Love's itself was the franchisee, according to the Journal Record. Love's also had its own sandwich brand: Fresh Daily Deli and Grill. Around this time, the company also was installing debit and credit card readers to its fuel pumps.
Love's also tried fitting some of the branded fast-food locations with drive-up windows, though a company executive later told National Petroleum News that these did not justify their expense.
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