Golden Age of Gas Stations

Pleasant Valley Shopping ^ | 03/19/11 | Dave

[OCC]

I remember that friendly sounding bell, “ding ding”, as the car would drive over the rubber air hose near the pumps.

I completely forgot about those, but now that you mention it, I remember getting chased off many times when we would ride our bikes over those trying to get the bell to ring :)

[Chickensoup]

I had a model texaco station made of metal with a lift, parking on the top of the station, little oil cans and cars and a little texeco man

I also had Roy Rogers and Dale Evens’s farm with all the characters and Tinkerbelle the Jeep. Tinkerbelle often filled up at the Texeco station.

I had a blessed childhood.

[Chickensoup]

Anyone remember the Texaco tiger tails than hung from the fill doors of cars. I think one would get one if the car was filled up.

[jmacusa]

“You can trust your car to the man who wears the star...’’ I remember when a ‘’gas-station’’ was called a ‘’filling station’’ and they gave Green Stamps.

[deport]

Anyone remember the Texaco tiger tails than hung from the fill doors of cars.

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I think that was ESSO or EXXON/Mobile in today’s world.

[Paisan]

I remember the TV commercials for GAS.

Put a Tiger-in-your-Tank.

Like the TV commercials for cigarettes, the GAS commercials would employ musical phrases that would stay with you forever.

As my father would say, “Those were the days...”

[CORedneck]

I remember the Phillips 66 in Indiana especially with the red/white triangle pattern along with the triangular canopy. I remember when we would go from Indy to Northern Indiana along US 31, my dad would stop off to get gas in Northern Hamilton county.

Looking at the Skelly in Colorado Springs where I live now. I looked up the corner of Cascade and Cimarron, here is the Street View which the station is long gone !

Another item that brings back memories is the Shell No Pest Strip which my mom had put in all of the bed rooms at the lake cottage.

[chickadee]

That pump is just gorgeous. I’ve never seen one before. Was it a regional thing (I’ve never heard of Mohawk gas)?

[Eaker]

When I worked at a station many years ago an old OLD man would come in and request four gallons of gas, not dollars worth.

That was a hold out from back in the days of those pumps.

[deport]

'Gas stations'..........

We used to call them 'filling stations' which may have been a colloquialism.

[OldPossum]

I remember buying gas at 19.9 cents/gal during a gas war in the mid ‘60’s...

I remember those days too. I can remember paying the same amount during a comparable gas war in 1964. Ah, now THOSE were the days.

[Revolting cat!]

You mean petrol stations?

[Eaker]

I never go to blogs but this one is well worth the visit!

It ain’t being pimped either.

[Eaker]

You mean petrol stations?

In England maybe.

They were typically called fillin' stations in the south.

[Larry Lucido]

Agreed.

Original and well done.

I’m sure the bloggers union will file a complaint.

[Richard Kimball]

The pumps were all over the place. I’m sure the gas brand was regional, as there used to be dozens of regional gas station franchises.

[Revolting cat!]

Yes, I remember well this public restroom at my local Esso stations

[gorush]

...and the older I get, the better I was. :{)

[Salamander]

The back roads in these parts are dotted with defunct little gas stations still sporting their glass globe-topped pumps.

Surprisingly, the kids haven’t broken ‘em yet.

Depressingly, I remember when they were open and dad filled up the new ‘63 Ford Fairlane convertible [which replaced the ‘57 Chevy now that he was a “family man”] on our “Sunday joy rides”.

[which were sorta more like “Thunder Road” without the ‘shine in the trunk...I’m assuming that, anyway...his dad died of “lead poisoning” for that in the ‘30s and I know it’s genetic]

[Salamander]

They still are, here.

[we’re a little backwards....we didn’t get disco until the early 80s]