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Golden Age of Gas Stations
Pleasant Valley Shopping ^ | 03/19/11 | Dave

Posted on 03/20/2011 1:33:45 PM PDT by P.O.E.

(snip)...I thought it might be fun to relive that long past era when gas stations were truly “service stations” with a look at some of the major gasoline brands as seen through some of their old marketing photos. Gas station architecture is a fascinating genre unto itself, ranging from crude, early stations with curbside pumps to the elaborate mini-Roman temples of the 1930’s. Our focus here will be on stations from the 1960’s, for two reasons – first, a decent number of them still exist, albeit with heavy modifications and rarely under their original brands, and secondly, I’m sure that some of you remember these great stations in their heyday. (snip)

(Excerpt) Read more at pleasantfamilyshopping.blogspot.com ...


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To: 6SJ7
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 :)

41 posted on 03/20/2011 3:37:49 PM PDT by OCC
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To: P.O.E.

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.


42 posted on 03/20/2011 3:42:25 PM PDT by Chickensoup (Totalitarian Fascism is here, now.)
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To: Paisan

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.


43 posted on 03/20/2011 3:45:12 PM PDT by Chickensoup (Totalitarian Fascism is here, now.)
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To: P.O.E.

“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.


44 posted on 03/20/2011 3:48:59 PM PDT by jmacusa (Two wrongs don't make a right. But they can make it interesting.)
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To: Chickensoup

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


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


45 posted on 03/20/2011 3:57:25 PM PDT by deport
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To: Chickensoup

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...”


46 posted on 03/20/2011 3:58:48 PM PDT by Paisan
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To: P.O.E.
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.
47 posted on 03/20/2011 4:05:20 PM PDT by CORedneck
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To: Richard Kimball

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


48 posted on 03/20/2011 4:12:43 PM PDT by chickadee
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To: Richard Kimball

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.


49 posted on 03/20/2011 4:19:31 PM PDT by Eaker (The problem with the internet, you're never sure the accuracy of the quotes. ~ Abraham Lincoln, 1865)
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To: P.O.E.
'Gas stations'..........

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

50 posted on 03/20/2011 4:26:03 PM PDT by deport
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To: gorush
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.

51 posted on 03/20/2011 4:27:17 PM PDT by OldPossum
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To: P.O.E.

You mean petrol stations?


52 posted on 03/20/2011 4:27:31 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Let us prey!)
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To: P.O.E.; humblegunner; Eaker; Allegra; 50mm; TheOldLady; DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis; ...

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

It ain’t being pimped either.


53 posted on 03/20/2011 4:37:38 PM PDT by Eaker (The problem with the internet, you're never sure the accuracy of the quotes. ~ Abraham Lincoln, 1865)
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To: Revolting cat!; P.O.E.
You mean petrol stations?

In England maybe.

They were typically called fillin' stations in the south.

54 posted on 03/20/2011 4:41:23 PM PDT by Eaker (The problem with the internet, you're never sure the accuracy of the quotes. ~ Abraham Lincoln, 1865)
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To: Eaker

Agreed.

Original and well done.

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


55 posted on 03/20/2011 4:55:54 PM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: chickadee

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.


56 posted on 03/20/2011 5:00:10 PM PDT by Richard Kimball (Proud member of the Keepers Of Odd Knowledge (KOOK))
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To: P.O.E.; a fool in paradise; JoeProBono
Yes, I remember well this public restroom at my local Esso stations


57 posted on 03/20/2011 5:04:01 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Let us prey!)
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To: OldPossum

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


58 posted on 03/20/2011 5:05:48 PM PDT by gorush (History repeats itself because human nature is static)
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To: Eaker

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]


59 posted on 03/20/2011 5:27:29 PM PDT by Salamander (I may be lonely but I'm never alone...and the nights may pass me by......but I never cry.)
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To: Eaker

They still are, here.

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


60 posted on 03/20/2011 5:37:47 PM PDT by Salamander (I may be lonely but I'm never alone...and the nights may pass me by......but I never cry.)
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