Old gas stations

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[BobHufford]

Worth repeating...just drove by it again (Weatherford, Oklahoma on Route 66).

 

[GHT]

Worth repeating...just drove by it again (Weatherford, Oklahoma on Route 66).

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Well worth repeating, how I would love those fuel pumps.
Sometimes the building that a garage is situated in is just too iconic to end up at the end of the wrecking ball. This garage once sold cars, fuel and had a service bay. Today the pumps are long gone but the building was rescued and is now a trendy cafe. See the detail in the second picture.

 

[Ghostsoldier]

Maxwell Super Service Station, Tacoma, WA October 7, 1941

Rob

 

[Ghostsoldier]

Elks Pontiac Sales, Service Station and Tire Shop

Rob

 

[2jakes]

Red Crown Gasoline attendant.
I’d be late for work each morning if those leggings
required lacing up!

 

[LizzieMaine]

Maxwell Super Service Station, Tacoma, WA October 7,
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Rob

That's a 1942 DeSoto, which got a lot of attention for its futuristic retractable headlights -- at least until they shut the production lines down to make tanks, which did not have futuristic retractable headlights.

 

[2jakes]

Service with a smile!

 

[Fading Fast]

That's a 1942 DeSoto, which got a lot of attention for its futuristic retractable headlights -- at least until they shut the production lines down to make tanks, which did not have futuristic retractable headlights.

A friend of mine owned a version of the below '82 firebird in college and on a day of sleeting rain with temperatures that, then, dropped below freezing, his flip-up headlights froze shut. Not wanting to break them or scratch the paint, we struggled to carefully chip the ice away (would have tried hot water but too far from a source and had no inside area to work). Just another example of my father's "it's just another thing to break" rule.

 

[Ghostsoldier]

I had a 1976 Triumph TR7 that did the same thing.

Rob

 

[Fading Fast]

I had a 1976 Triumph TR7 that did the same thing.

Rob

I literally can hear the little motor whining and become more high pitched as it failed to raise the headline. It's funny how a sound or something like that can stay with you for thirty plus years.

 

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[Ghostsoldier]

Rob

 

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Walt Disney?

"The postman always rings twice"

 

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Ungawa!

 

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Noir

 

[Frunobulax]

Rob

Yep that's what Sohio stations looked like when I was a pup.


Sent directly from my mind to yours.

 

[2jakes]

Yep that's what Sohio stations looked like when I was a pup.


Sent directly from my mind to yours.

For me these were the cars when I was a tadpole.

Except they were not as shiny as seen in movie remakes of that period.
Many folks made use of '30s Fords & Chevrolets built before my time.
I loved riding on the running board when my father came home from work!

 

[LizzieMaine]

The last surviving Teague Texaco in our area bites the dust this morning. This one was put up in 1951, and remained in business as a gas station until about ten years ago. It was a Texaco into the 1980s, but was rebranded Mobil up until the pumps were removed. At that point the entire building was swabbed with bad latex house paint and converted into a retail shop for marine electronics, but you can still see the characteristic Teague speed lines at the top of the facade. Note the cinder block construction, which was characteristic of the later Teagues -- many of the early ones were wood-frame buildings.

That metal sheathing, which was in excellent condition under the crappy paint, would be worth money to someone wanting to reconstruct a vintage Texaco station, but since no one has come forward to take it, it's heading to the scrap metal yard.

An office building will go up on the site, which is right at the end of my street. There goes the neighborhood.

 

[3fingers]

I'd like to think that when they're all gone people will be sorry, but I really don't believe it. New, shiny, high tech, state of the art short life cycle crap is obviously the desire of the majority. They can have it.