Old gas stations

[2jakes]

Where was this ⇧ when I needed it yesterday in the "This or That" thread?

She had a rough time falling asleep
the other night.
Being Sunday, I didn't have the
heart to turn on the SOS signal light.

 

[Stearmen]

Fill her up, but go light on the water this time!

 

[Fading Fast]

⇧ Architecturally, I love that bowed-out mullioned window, but does the "roof" over it and the door look "off" or where they doing them that way back then?

 

[LizzieMaine]

That's a building that likely wasn't built as any kind of a gas station -- probably more of a neighborhood grocery store type of place that happens to have a gas pump out front. Or a "petrol pump" to be accurate, since it's British.

 

[Ghostsoldier]

Rob

 

[Fading Fast]

Rob

Bet there is a mullioned wrap-around-the-corner window at the left side of that station building.

 

[Ghostsoldier]

Rob

 

[Benzadmiral]

Rob

A Buick driver -- no doubt on his way home to watch Milton Berle as sponsored by Texaco.

 

[2jakes]

Rob

The rear window on these vehicles had
enough compartment space where I
would lay down on long trips.

Reading the Burma~Shave signs along
the road, counting the horses on the fields, or the shape of clouds, I would
fall asleep.
A stop at our favorite gas station to
"filler-up", and a soda pop to enjoy
a home-made sandwich.

Listening to the car radio until the
the sound of the "snap-crackle-pop"
came in meaning that the radio signal was getting weak.
But eventually another station kicked in
as we got closer to another town.

 

[Ghostsoldier]

Rob

 

[BobHufford]

Like the Crosley wagon. Had a '47 pickup for a time. Looked very much like this one.

 

[Benzadmiral]

Like the Crosley wagon. Had a '47 pickup for a time. Looked very much like this one.

I was just thinking that the cars in the original B & W shot from Ghostsoldier might be Crosleys.

 

[Ghostsoldier]

Rob

 

[BobHufford]

Former DX station here in Springfield, Missouri.

After an addition.

 

[Ghostsoldier]

Rob

 

[Fading Fast]

Rob

Is the railroad car in the back the gas station's office / storage / etc. "building?"

Or (and the lack of signage says it isn't, to me) is it a true railcar being used as a diner?

 

[LizzieMaine]

Looks to me like a decomissioned trolley car -- note the folded-down trolley pole extended toward the rear. The stacks of oil cans in the window suggest something, but it's odd there's no signage.

 

[Fading Fast]

Looks to me like a decomissioned trolley car -- note the folded-down trolley pole extended toward the rear. The stacks of oil cans in the window suggest something, but it's odd there's no signage.

You, as always, look spot on with the trolley call (the front, too, just feels "trolley"). But odd about the lack of signage. The oil cans and lack of signage is what made me think gas station office / storage.

 

[Ghostsoldier]

Boston, 1950s

Rob

 

[Stearmen]

Former DX station here in Springfield, Missouri.

Love the old grease pit! I looked at a house with a three car garage, my realtor said, "I wounder what that plywood is doing in the middle of the floor?" I knew, so I lifted it and showed him. Unfortunately, way out of my budget!