Location: The Gas Station

Origin
It's unknown how long the gas station has existed, but for the majority of the series it was owned by a married couple known only as Mammaw and Pops.

DESCRIPTION
As described by the novels:

"At the edge of our town, on the downhill side, beyond the abandoned railroad tracks to nowhere, past the point where the streetlights end, but before the world disappears into a twisted canopy of Oak and Black Willow trees, there’s a shitty little gas station that’s open twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. If you were to go inside, you’d see row after row of off-brand chips, cookies, potted meats, and pickled curiosities. Expiration dates suspiciously missing from the canned goods like they were filed off years ago in some misguided attempt to control inventory turnover. A faded “wet floor” sign from way back covers a large crack in the foundation by the cooler where layers of sticky spill-off have formed a miniature tar pit, preserving countless insect corpses and the occasional small rodent.

Nobody ever complains about the aesthetic. By some providence bordering on the supernatural, the health inspector has repeatedly signed off on the business, always kindly ignoring the faint smell of some kind of mysterious chemical cocktail that is the defining characteristic of the establishment. More noticeable than the steady mechanical hum of the frozen drink machine that was installed in the seventies and never once serviced. More distracting than the random pockets of cold and warm air that seem to follow you around. And more annoying than the family of mutated raccoons that lives in the crawlspace behind the grease trap."