Old gas stations

[Ghostsoldier]

Rob

 

[Fading Fast]

The 1955 Ford's had 15 inch wheels and the 1957 Fords had 14 inch wheels. That made the 1957's look lower and longer.

Great detailed knowledge. Amazing how small changes can have such a meaningful visual effect.

 

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Rob

Hammerbacher sounds like a man that can grill up a darn good steak.

 

[David Conwill]

I went on a bit of a SUNOCO binge last night and found these three:

1932

1939

A date unknown

 

[Ghostsoldier]

Seen this one before, but not colorized...

 

[Ghostsoldier]

Rob

 

[arkadijs]

One more restored ESSO fuel truck in Reykjavík.

 

[David Conwill]

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Rob

You know what this reminds me of?

 

[LizzieMaine]

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Rob

"Hi, five gallons of Super Shell please."

 

[Ghostsoldier]

Rob

 

[Frunobulax]

"Hi, five gallons of Super Shell please."

"$1.00 gas...and shake the hose!"


Sent directly from my mind to yours.

 

[Benzadmiral]

You know what this reminds me of?

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Something from a Stephen King novel?

 

[Benzadmiral]

Seen this one before, but not colorized...

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I'm puzzled. The date on the ad, I suppose from a magazine where it appeared, seems to say "1937" -- but that car is one of the Raymond Loewy-designed Studebakers of the Fifties. Maybe I'm reading a 3 for a 5, and it's really 1957. But the guy in the ad looks a LOT like Rock Hudson, who by 1957 was something of a Hollywood name. Surely they'd have mentioned him???

 

[LizzieMaine]

That's definitely a 1957 ad, not 1937. The station design, however, does date to the late thirties -- it was Gulf's variation on the Teague Texaco, which rolled out in 1937. Gulf was the last company to cling to the white-porcelain-with-speed-lines motif, continuing to build stations in that format into the late 1960s, with the only change being the replacement of the block-serif all capital lettering with their new sans-serif wordmark in 1962. Many of these "Gulf icebox" stations operated without any type of modernization into the early 1990s.

A 1960s Gulf Icebox which operated in Wells, Maine into the late 2000s without modernization.

 

[Benzadmiral]

That's definitely a 1957 ad, not 1937. The station design, however, does date to the late thirties -- it was Gulf's variation on the Teague Texaco, which rolled out in 1937. Gulf was the last company to cling to the white-porcelain-with-speed-lines motif, continuing to build stations in that format into the late 1960s, with the only change being the replacement of the block-serif all capital lettering with their new sans-serif wordmark in 1962.

Right; that certainly is not a 1937 automobile. Perhaps the male model was chosen precisely for his resemblance to Rock Hudson.

 

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"Hi, five gallons of Super Shell please."

Clearly some oil companies did not just sell to exclusive dealers?

Would Texaco have sold to that type of retailer?

 

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You know what this reminds me of?

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That guy Hopper has a future as a painter.

 

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I'm puzzled. The date on the ad, I suppose from a magazine where it appeared, seems to say "1937" -- but that car is one of the RAymond Loewy-designed Studebakers of the Fifties. Maybe I'm reading a 3 for a 5, and it's really 1957. But the guy in the ad looks a LOT like Rock Hudson, who by 1957 was something of a Hollywood name. Surely they'd have mentioned him???

Loewy and Dreyfus were talented guys. I lean toward Dreyfus, but they are both insanely talented. And my God, the designed so many things in so many diverse industries.

 

[Ghostsoldier]

Exner was my favorite.

Rob

 

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Exner was my favorite.

Rob

Had to look him up (I'm embarrassed) - impressive designer of automobiles. It doesn't appear (from Wikipedia) that he branched out to other fields as Loewy and Dreyfus did.