Lee-Lex Service Center Closed, 7-Eleven Rumored As Replacement

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The story is two years old. Today, there's an article about the service station's replacement:

New 7-Eleven Opens Along Lee Highway

by Alex Koma December 18, 2018 at 9:45 am

A new 7-Eleven convenience store along Lee Highway in Northwest Arlington is now open for business.

The store is located at 5747 Lee Highway in the Leeway-Overlee neighborhood, and now has signs posted in its windows looking for new employees.

The 7-Eleven replaces the longtime Lee-Lex Service Center, a fixture in the neighborhood dating back to 1978. The auto shop closed for good back in 2016.
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So what? Well, it's the comments that count.

Lee-Lex Service Center Closed, 7-Eleven Rumored As Replacement

by ARLnow.com November 28, 2016 at 10:25 am

The Lee-Lex Service Center, a well-reviewed, long-time automotive business at the corner of Lee Highway and N. Lexington Street, has closed.

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BBMS • 2 years ago
I can't put my finger on a source right now, but I believe this building once housed a country music radio station. It was known to have hosted a few well known acts who performed in the studio live over the air.

I guess I'm OK with a 7-Eleven going in there. Since the one in Westover closed there's been a bit of a 7-Eleven desert in that area.


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Jeff Brown BBMS • 2 years ago
The radio station was down the road. I have seen a photo of when the Lee-Lex was a gas station and there were a group of county music artist that posed in front of it. They were probably either promoting WARL's Town and County Time radio or its TV version (which aired on channel 7).


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Willy Jeff Brown • 2 years ago
Let's get Our Man in Arlington, Charlie Clark, on this.


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Jeff Brown Willy • 2 years ago





Here are two photos of the Lee-Lex when it was a Gulf filling station and Arlington was a country music hub. Jimmy Dean is clearly visible leaning on the car in the one shot. I was told he lived for awhile on Roosevelt Street near the present day Metro station. Grandpa Jones is beyond the WARL sign in the other photo. Also, here is an ad for Flatts and Scruggs appearing at WL High.

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1. I stopped at that 7-11 just this morning

66 westbound was a freaking parking lot, so I hung Glebe over the 29 and got a coffee there.