Oh, this is too easy.
Actually, no; it was devlishly hard. At first I thought forget it, Pecos. Not even possible. But then I was filled with shame: really? Giving up, so soon?
First problem: the card says it’s “U.S. Highway 10." It doesn’t exist anymore as such, but according to old maps it went east-west. So: look at the map, and see if there’s a big east-west highway. There is: Interstate 280. Hey, that has an 80 in it. Find the spur that goes through town, the local-business loop; it’s West 3rd Street. Plod along, block by block, until:
Holy crap, could that be it? That’s the style of the 1930s station. But it’s not. Nothing else matches. So I kept going, found an intersection that had a building that looked like something on the other part of the card. I cropped it to get all the Texaco signage goodness. Here’s the entire card:

A screenshot of a Google street view image:

Match. If it’s not the front that gives them away, it’s the back.So the view up above is the right view.
That only took forty minutes on a Saturday afternoon, but it was worth it.
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