Old gas stations

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Carmel Garage Ford Show Room & Chevron Station

There’s something about big windows, wide open spaces and wood all-around....

 

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Last Chance!

 

[Benzadmiral]

Blue Chip was S&H's top competitor during the trading stamp craze of the 1960s. Others were Gold Bond, Top Value, and Plaid Stamps. We gave out Top Value -- with redemption books featuring their cartoon mascot Toppie The Elephant -- and I've still got a few loose stamps in my desk drawer at home.

Toppie was a *plaid* elephant wearing a tam-o-shanter, which, along with rival "Plaid Stamps," played on the "thrifty Scotchman" stereotype to suggest the value of the stamps. At least they didn't draw him wearing a kilt.

My first watch came from an S & H Green Stamps "Redemption Center," as they called it. And I remember Top Value, too.

When my mother passed away, I found hundreds of cigarette coupons (all neatly rubber-banded into packets) she'd saved over the years. I forget the name of the company, but there was a catalog, and I "purchased" a wall clock and one or two other small household decorations.

 

[BobHufford]

Grandpa (with Grandma below) said that Charles Arthur "Pretty Boy" Floyd could always be depended on to buy a full tank of gas while traveling Route 66 through Springfield, Missouri.

 

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R.I.P.

 

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BARROW FILLING STATION PUMPS

Mr. Barrow going on a hunting trip.

 

[GHT]

There's so many questions that I get asked at festivals and such, about my car, that I've written a journal. To make it interesting and not all car, car, car, I've added anecdotes. For example, I wrote about fuelling up but then qualified it with being fuelled up. When I started driving self service was unheard of. I uncovered an old photo which I printed off, then, incredibly, I found a garage that a couple had saved from demolition and it's now their home. Here are some photos, who couldn't live in an art deco home?

 

[Ghostsoldier]

What a coincidence...I'm currently reading "The Life and Death of Pretty Boy Floyd", by Jeffrey King. It's a pretty good read, so far.

Another one to read, if you're as passionate about this era as I am, is Brian Burroughs' "Public Enemies". The Depp movie didn't do it justice...even with all the historical inaccuracies, lol.

Although historically interesting, I never cared for the mythos of Bonnie and Clyde...like their contemporaries, I found them to be crude and amateurish; basically just a couple of 'mad dogs' of the public enemy era, giving the likes of Dillinger and Floyd a "bad name" (assuming you can give any criminal a bad name, lol).

Rob

 

[2jakes]

What a coincidence...I'm currently reading "The Life and Death of Pretty Boy Floyd", by Jeffrey King. It's a pretty good read, so far.

Another one to read, if you're as passionate about this era as I am, is Brian Burroughs' "Public Enemies". The Depp movie didn't do it justice...even with all the historical inaccuracies, lol.

Although historically interesting, I never cared for the mythos of Bonnie and Clyde...like their contemporaries, I found them to be crude and amateurish; basically just a couple of 'mad dogs' of the public enemy era, giving the likes of Dillinger and Floyd a "bad name" (assuming you can give any criminal a bad name, lol).

Rob

Looking at the photo, I never realized how young Barrow was.
I’ve interviewed prison inmates on death row for the TV news.
Common bond they share is the lack of compassion.
You try to be nice, they see that as a weakness and will try to end you.

Btw:
This would be my ideal living room!

 

[Ghostsoldier]

Clyde was a bad egg from early youth, learning the criminal trade from his older brother, Buck.

Of the two, I could have a modicum of sympathy (very minute) for Bonnie, in that she was a bit starry-eyed with Clyde and the romance and excitement that she imagined a life of crime would entail.

Boy, was she ever wrong....and as cop killers, they got what they deserved.

Rob

 

[Ghostsoldier]

Interesting thing about the Red Crown hideout incident, is that there was no wall or petition between the garage doors; when the shootout began, they were able to pile the whole gang (including the injured Bonnie) into the getaway car via the internal cabin doors that opened into the garage. Then all they had to do was ram the garage door on the way out, guns a'blazing.

Rob

 

[Ghostsoldier]

Not to make excuses for Barrow, but it looks like he had no decent upbringing or
someone he could look up to. And he took the wrong path.
Prison abuse made matters worse.
I was lucky to have my grandmother and uncle at an early age to guide and
show me affection.
Military knocked some sense into me about how precious life is.

I can see that point...but, he wasn't the only one suffering during the depression, and many a young boy was in a similar predicament but never turned to crime.

Extenuating factors aside, that's why I find it harder to sympathize with Clyde, and how he pursued his criminal career...he never was as 'classy' (or smart) as Dillinger, even though they both came from poverty and a hard life, and he would kill you as soon as look at you...something JD would try to avoid, if possible.

Of course, Baby Face Nelson was another nut job, entirely.

Rob

 

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Clyde was a bad egg from early youth, learning the criminal trade from his older brother, Buck.

Of the two, I could have a modicum of sympathy (very minute) for Bonnie, in that she was a bit starry-eyed with Clyde and the romance and excitement that she imagined a life of crime would entail.

Boy, was she ever wrong....and as cop killers, they got what they deserved.

Rob

I believe Bonnie had an idea where they were headed.
This is the last part of a poem she wrote prior to their deaths.

The Trail's End
"Some day they'll go down together
they'll bury them side by side.
To few it'll be grief,
to the law a relief
but it's death for Bonnie and Clyde”


Poem left behind along with snapshots of themselves
and other things when they made their escape.

 

[Ghostsoldier]

Rob

 

[Ghostsoldier]

The Trail's End
"Some day they'll go down together
they'll bury them side by side.
To few it'll be grief,
to the law a relief
but it's death for Bonnie and Clyde”

Kind of prophetic, but probably understandable for those days...a life of violent crime usually ended in gunfire, the electric chair, or the hangman's noose.

Rob

 

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Rob;
Interesting story about how it came about!

For Milwaukie gas station owner, bomber trip was wild adventure ...

 

[Ghostsoldier]

Btw, the Barrow family gas station is still standing in Dallas (we might have already discussed this previously in the thread, but I can't remember, lol).

Rob

 

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Btw, the Barrow family gas station is still standing in Dallas (we might have already discussed this previously in the thread, but I can't remember, lol).

Rob

Rob....I can’t tell if you are carrying,
but as far as I’m concerned
you can post anything you want pal !

Just don’t shoot up the Lounge!

You might upset the bartender...
and you don’t ever want to do that!
Bonnie Parker is a rookie compared to her!

 

[GHT]

How remiss of me to forget. There's a garage about forty miles from me that was featured on our local radio. They have been selling fuel at the same site, from the same pumps, despite the UK going metric, (gallons to litres) for more than fifty years. Here's the article, it made the national press, and here is the garage.

 

[LizzieMaine]

A hundred and twelve and sixpence a gallon!

It's interesting to see clockface pumps were still in use in the UK as late as fifty years ago. They were largely superseded by "this sale" Veeder-Root computers in the US by the start of the war.