Emory T. Clark Founded Clark’s Super Gas in 1932. His first filling station sat on the corner of 60th St. and Greenfield Avenue in West Allis, Wisconsin, Clark Super Gas exclusively sold premium gas. In 1943, the company got into the oil refining business. By the middle of the 1950s, Clark’s operated almost 500 gas stations all over the Midwest. The company grew like gangbusters and by the time I was old enough to pump gas Clark’s had 1,489 stations and two refineries.
