Old gas stations

[Benzadmiral]

Rob

Cute kids and a great layout. Peculiar language and alphabet, though. . . .

 

[Fading Fast]

I specifically remember billboard advertising for the 64 1/2 Ford. I even remember where that billboard was. But I wouldn't recognize one if I saw one. The only thing about the advertisement that I recall was the 64 1/2 part, which was unusual.

Great info / memory - thank you. Today, everything is up for grabs as it all moves so fast and the generational shift from Baby Boomer-driven to Millennial-driven culture has thrown every business model into question, but there was a time in the '50s and '60s when things seemed so much more "established" and "set" so that even small variations - like "releasing" a new car model not "on cycle -" seemed important.

 

[2jakes]

Cute kids and a great layout. Peculiar language and alphabet, though. . . .

I reversed the image, but curious why it was posted backwards in the first place.

Ghostsoldier...any idea?

red eye correction

 

[Ghostsoldier]

I reversed the image, but curious why it was posted backwards in the first place.

Ghostsoldier...any idea?
View attachment 88834

Nah, that's just the way I found it, and forgot to reverse it before I posted it.

Rob

 

[2jakes]

Gas station & accessories including caption about the kids.

"Lego
A Natural History of Package Design
This is the 1958 box for Lego set 700/5.1 It shows three children so absorbed in play that they couldn’t even bother to look up at the camera. The children weren’t models but Lego’s managing director Godtfred Kirk Christiansen’s daughters Hanne (l) (who tragically died in an auto accident in 1968) and Gunhild (now Gunhild Johansen) as well as his son Kjeld (future owner of the company and heir to the Lego fortune)"

 

[2jakes]

About the only thing we did at the table was have supper!

I remember a small hand-me-down truck given to me by my uncle
and this song playing in the kitchen radio which I hated, but now
reminds me of my youth.

 

[BlueTrain]

"Lubritorium." That's a word you don't hear very often, like scriptorium. Can't be Latin, could it?

 

[2jakes]

"Lubritorium." That's a word you don't hear very often, like scriptorium. Can't be Latin, could it?

Auditorium ...
as in "high school auditorium dance" where I would stand on the corner in the dark
with my fellow “Clearasil” pimply comrades, watching peggy-sue dance with the football
gorilla & wondering why I would subject myself to this torture.

 

[Benzadmiral]

Gas station & accessories including caption about the kids.

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"Lego
A Natural History of Package Design
This is the 1958 box for Lego set 700/5.1 It shows three children so absorbed in play that they couldn’t even bother to look up at the camera. The children weren’t models but Lego’s managing director Godtfred Kirk Christiansen’s daughters Hanne (l) (who tragically died in an auto accident in 1968) and Gunhild (now Gunhild Johansen) as well as his son Kjeld (future owner of the company and heir to the Lego fortune)"

I first saw Legos for sale at a W.T. Grant store (which is nostalgic in and of itself) in about 1963. I had no idea they were any older than that.

 

[Benzadmiral]

"Lubritorium." That's a word you don't hear very often, like scriptorium. Can't be Latin, could it?

Jack-Latin, kind of like "Non carborundum illegitimatus."

 

[BlueTrain]

Auditorium ...
as in "high school auditorium dance" where I would stand on the corner in the dark
with my fellow “Clearasil” pimply comrades, watching peggy-sue dance with the football
gorilla & wondering why I would subject myself to this torture.

A high school dance is where the girls dance with each other and the guys stand around outside smoking.

 

[2jakes]

A high school dance is where the girls dance with each other and the guys stand around outside smoking.

Well.....maybe “long tall Sally” danced with the other girls,
but the blond pig-tailed cutie Peggy-Sue had no problem dancing with the boys!

 

[2jakes]

Wood varnish on the floors, money baskets on top going from one
end of the store to the other. Cash registers were heavy and cashiers
would count the change to you with a smile.
Credit cards....what’s that?

 

[3fingers]

Nah, that's just the way I found it, and forgot to reverse it before I posted it.

Rob

It reminds me of watching slides that my grandfather took and coming across one that was in the tray backwards. I enjoyed many an evening watching slides projected on the big screen. Thanks for the memory jolt.

 

[GHT]

Here's some other vintage garages that I came across on that MG website:

Here's a novel way to beat the morning rush. Buy yourself a length of disused rail track, convert the car and hey presto, your own private road.

 

[2jakes]

Station wagon Hyrail.
Equipped with steel wheels to run on tracks and conduct inspections.

For the boss!
Executive Track Inspection Car. First Class in a Cadillac.

 

[BobHufford]

One of the stations that Mom and Dad would frequent...

 

[2jakes]

My first girl-friend lived in a white house exactly like this one.
I loved going to the attic. We'd sit outside the roof top. Just blue skies & trees.

 

[Ghostsoldier]

Rob

 

[2jakes]

Rob.... I’m beginning to sound like a
broken record.

That was the shape & color of our transit buses. Only difference, there was a white
line below the windows all the way around.

Also, there is still a street with the traffic
lights on the sidewalk.

Most of them are now in the middle and
hanging high above.

Why am I pointing this out?

If you were to drive a 1939 or 1946
vehicle you would know what I mean.

For those not familiar:
The front windows are so art-deco small
that unless you have a reflector on the
dash or stick your head out the side door
window.... you won’t be able to see the
traffic light signal the way they are situated today.