{"id":10729,"date":"2019-09-13T18:54:38","date_gmt":"2019-09-13T18:54:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/?p=10729"},"modified":"2019-09-13T18:54:38","modified_gmt":"2019-09-13T18:54:38","slug":"harveys-lp-gas-gets-facelift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/?p=10729","title":{"rendered":"Harvey\u2019s LP Gas Gets Facelift"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_10735\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10735\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10735\" src=\"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/harveys.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/harveys.jpg 600w, https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/harveys-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-10735\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">This photo and below: A look at the Los Frensos store as facelift project continues. Photo: Tony Vindell\/LFN<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>by Tony Vindell\/LFN<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Harvey\u2019s LP Gas Co. in Los Fresnos is getting a facelift.<\/p>\n<p>The 30-plus years old business is getting its gas pumps and canopy upgraded with new paint and other improvements.<\/p>\n<p>Harvey\u2019s, which takes its name after the family patriarch Javier Escalante, is a place where people can buy groceries, pan dulce, tacos, gasoline and lottery tickets, among other things.<\/p>\n<p>Others meet at Harvey\u2019s to talk and discuss the world\u2019s problems around a breakfast table.<\/p>\n<p>However, propane has been its bread and butter since it opened the doors back in 1988.<\/p>\n<p>Amparo Escalante, one of seven brothers and sisters, said the name Harvey was adopted because some of the Anglos who came by the store a while back started calling their father Harvey, rather than Javier.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10736\" src=\"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/harveys2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/harveys2.jpg 600w, https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/harveys2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/harveys2-405x270.jpg 405w, https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/harveys2-60x40.jpg 60w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>She said their father was born and raised in Los Fresnos and their mother, Piedad, came from Mexico.<\/p>\n<p>She said Harvey opened the doors selling propane only and started adding groceries and gasoline as time went by.<\/p>\n<p>Harvey\u2019s propane prices are competitive with the industry, and the business makes deliveries around a 50-mile radius.<\/p>\n<p>Escalante said one of their brothers goes as far as Weslasco to install propane for homes and businesses.<\/p>\n<p>As to the improvements being made right now, Escalante said it was about time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe wanted to make some changes but kept the name Harvey\u2019s,\u201d she said. \u201cWherever our father is, he is probably happy to know we have kept the store\u2019s name. We are proud of the name Harvey. \u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rogelio Villarreal is one many regulars who frequents the store.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI came back from Houston in 2002,\u201d said the Laureles resident while scratching off a lottery ticket. \u201cI stop here about once a week \u2013 sometimes more.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Tony Vindell\/LFN Harvey\u2019s LP Gas Co. in Los Fresnos is getting a facelift. The 30-plus years old business is getting its gas pumps and canopy upgraded with new paint and other improvements. Harvey\u2019s, which takes its name after the family patriarch Javier Escalante, is a place where people can buy groceries, pan dulce, tacos, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":10736,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10729"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10739,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10729\/revisions\/10739"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}