Old gas stations

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I'm not proud of how much I like those tilted mullioned windows behind the car .

Woodwork, metal shops and in the high school cafeteria and classrooms!

Oh... the good old days!

 

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Clawfoot

Early morning,

 

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Rob

 

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Bike has a slow leak & she’s heading to the gas station to get it fixed.

Marilyn needs a full check-up and inspection.

 

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Marilyn needs a full check-up and inspection.

Here's my heresy for the morning. Marylyn's whole va-va-voom thing always turned me off. The falling out of her top, skirt blowing up, etc. - I get it, it worked for her and made her an international super star, but it always came across as cheap, phony and forced to me (even though I'll grant the iconography of it all).

But every once in awhile, a picture like this will come along and I think Marylin looks great. Hard to tell exactly, but it looks like she's wearing simple white pants and a black sweater with somewhat less than her full makeup regalia. Here she looks cute - pretty even - in a normal-person way and, IMHO, looks more comfortable with herself than when she's in full-on sex-symbol mode.

That's it, bring out the knives, but it is how I feel on something that, overall, is just opinion.

 

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Here's my heresy for the morning. Marylyn's whole va-va-voom thing always turned me off. The falling out of her top, skirt blowing up, etc. - I get it, it worked for her and made her an international super star, but it always came across as cheap, phony and forced to me (even though I'll grant the iconography of it all).

But every once in awhile, a picture like this will come along and I think Marylin looks great. Hard to tell exactly, but it looks like she's wearing simple white pants and a black sweater with somewhat less than her full makeup regalia. Here she looks cute - pretty even - in a normal-person way and, IMHO, looks more comfortable with herself than when she's in full-on sex-symbol mode.

That's it, bring out the knives, but it is how I feel on something that, overall, is just opinion.

Poor Norma Jean,they won’t leave her be.

Hollywood designer Katie Halford reported that Marilyn
was not keen on wearing underwear unless she had to.

 

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Not a fan of Norma Jean, either.

Rob

 

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Pittsburg , Bigelow Blvd. 1926

 

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Fill up with a Bang!

1917 ~ 1918 Packard

 

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Rob

 

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Rob,
The Gulf Hotel by the waters is grand.

Reminds me of the Albacore Club in California.

Thanks!

 

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Standard Oil 1939.

The “standolind”pump gets its light and pump globe serviced & cleaned.

In the center is a Standard “Red Crown” pump & on far right, the high-test
“Solite Gasoline with Ethyl”.

Gasoline pump“merchandiser”.

 

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1950s

 

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