Posted on 01/05/2013 6:21:43 AM PST by navysealdad
This will bring back some memories. You will love the cars in the photos too. Look at the price of gas in some of the pictures.
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Filled the tank in my Vdub for $3.00 (about 10 gallons) in the late 60’s.
Everything is not worth more. The DOLLAR has been totally devalued.
I’d say a ‘34 Ford.
One of my first jobs was pumping gas at the Leschi Park Shell station. I started working there at a time when service stations were transitioning to gas stations. My boss had a built-in advantage in that there were no other stations within 4 or 5 miles of his operation.
The other bonus was that the area had gentrified over the years and real estate was too expensive to appeal to gas venders. So, without the direct competition he was able to weather the changes for a few extra years.
We would often get people coming in to have me check fluids and tires, washing windows and emptying ashtrays - and not making a purchase. I asked my boss why he directed me to waste my time on what I considered deadbeats and he replied, “I want these people to feel comfortable coming here”.
What I eventually learned was that those folks did buy gas from him - and also came to him for tires, lubes, and all their general mechanical needs. He had three stalls and always had vehicles on them.
Eventually the heavy hand of government crushed him and he sold out. A couple of years later I drove by to see that someone had converted it to the gas/mini market theme. A few months later on a return trip saw it razed entirely. Now the progressives who voted for dhimmicrats get to drive to overpriced and indifferent gas stations miles away.
Looks like early ‘30s Plymouth ?
1935 Ford Sedan
Think choirboy nailed it
http://blog.hemmings.com/index.php/2012/04/20/hemmings-find-of-the-day-1934-ford-deluxe/
These were fun to see. My mom is 100 and everytime we pass the local gas station, she asks if we remember when gas was $0.29. I laughed at this post. Thanks.
What a treasure to have this picture!!
The mid-’60s Gulf station (#8) brings back some memories... sure was surprised to see that brand making a comeback in Texas in the past year or so. Also, the pigeonhole parking rig (#27, I think) looks like a place my Dad used to park. He was late for dinner many times because the lift mechanism was flaky and cars up top would get stranded for hours.
Yes, Reagan did, and I was there! Our family owned cabin #19 on the square. We have since sold the cabin. Good memories!
WTH was that lady with the dalmations doing pumping her own gas?
LOL
My. Uncle owned the Esso station on the corner of E 7th and Grant in downtown Odessa, TX. Used to hang out there in the 60s as a kid in the summer waiting for that daily nickel bottle of coke from the coin operated cooler.
“the stations had so much more style back then in general.”
There’s one decaying away outside east Akron. It’s in the shape of the Goodyear Blimp. May be gone now,,,,
The pic of the Goodyear tire store! Streamliner Architecture? Too cool!
35/36 Ford?
More like 1934. The 36 was a bit more streamlined.
OMG I must be getting old, I remember “gas wars” one of which forced the price down to 16-17 cents a gallon
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