Author Topic: The Golden Age of Service Stations (Read 4242 times)

cabrala · « **on:** January 30, 2013, 07:35:39 AM »

Got this link forwarded along from my dad. I guess he was reminiscing about the old days when attendants would check your oil, clean your windshield and pump your gas for $0.25/ gallon...

Enjoy the link below.

http://hipspics.freewebspace.com/gas/gas.html

MCRider · « **Reply #1 on:** January 30, 2013, 08:00:13 AM »

Man! That's a super shot of nostalgia!

FrankenFrankenstuff · « **Reply #2 on:** January 30, 2013, 09:31:23 AM »

thanks for sharing.

754 · « **Reply #3 on:** January 30, 2013, 10:34:27 AM »

You gotta like that kind of stuff, I work surrounded by it, my walls are 40,s Chevron colors..

754 · « **Reply #4 on:** January 30, 2013, 10:37:34 AM »

A very high quality reproduction piece I am helping on

Johnie · « **Reply #5 on:** January 30, 2013, 10:44:54 AM »

Wow...thanks for the link. Reminds me of the 1970's when I worked at a DX station in town while in high school. Just finishing up a restore on a 1950's Texaco pump for the shop. Here is a pic of my next project pump in the trailer yet.

K5 Keith · « **Reply #6 on:** January 30, 2013, 11:19:36 AM »

Buildings, autos, pumps, clothing... It's a shame things nowadays don't have the same sort of charm and beauty built into them. Being young I like to imagine what life would have been like in the past.

dave500 · « **Reply #7 on:** January 30, 2013, 11:45:08 AM »

love it.

petercb750 · « **Reply #8 on:** January 30, 2013, 12:08:55 PM »

great pics, thanks for that

locomonza · « **Reply #9 on:** January 30, 2013, 12:15:52 PM »

really great!!!!

cabrala · « **Reply #10 on:** January 30, 2013, 12:59:50 PM »

Glad you all are enjoying it. I figured I'd find a few of you who appreciate such classics

Damfino · « **Reply #11 on:** January 30, 2013, 04:42:27 PM »

Who knew that ethanol had been around so long!

Kevin D · « **Reply #12 on:** January 30, 2013, 05:30:41 PM »

You can still get to this station, pictured in the montage with the shiny travel trailer, but no VPower or Super Shell comes out of the pumps anymore:

cabrala · « **Reply #13 on:** January 30, 2013, 05:47:15 PM »

Now THAT is cool, Kevin!!

Damfino · « **Reply #14 on:** January 30, 2013, 05:50:00 PM »

Quote from: Kevin D on January 30, 2013, 05:30:41 PM

You can still get to this station, pictured in the montage with the shiny travel trailer, but no VPower or Super Shell comes out of the pumps anymore:

Is that the one at Hickory Corners, MI.?

Kevin D · « **Reply #15 on:** January 30, 2013, 06:07:45 PM »

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Is that the one at Hickory Corners, MI.?

Yep, thats the one. They have a vintage ride/meet early in June (ride June 8th meet June 9 2013) that I have been trying to get to.

http://gilmorecarmuseum.org/

The story on the station:
http://gilmorecarmuseum.org/html/content_page.php?content_id=14&nav_id=3&

azuredesign · « **Reply #16 on:** January 30, 2013, 08:36:27 PM »

Excellent Alex, thanks!

I remember 5 gallons for a buck at a station around Worcester when I was a nipper, partially because I remember there was a joint called Hot Dog Annies that sold 5 dogs for the same price. I just looked and Annies still exists in Leicester!

seanbarney41 · « **Reply #17 on:** January 30, 2013, 08:45:22 PM »

Quote from: Kevin D on January 30, 2013, 06:07:45 PM

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Is that the one at Hickory Corners, MI.?
Yep, thats the one. They have a vintage ride/meet early in June (ride June 8th meet June 9 2013) that I have been trying to get to.

http://gilmorecarmuseum.org/

The story on the station:
http://gilmorecarmuseum.org/html/content_page.php?content_id=14&nav_id=3&

put that on your list for this year, Kevin. It keeps getting bigger every year.

MoMo · « **Reply #18 on:** January 30, 2013, 10:53:23 PM »

The town I grew up in was one mile long and there where at least 7 gas stations that were similar, now most are gone-replaced by one mega station with no service. At one time those stations had a gas war-gas went down to seventeen cents a gallon before the owners decided enough and raised it back to 28...Larry

Don R · « **Reply #19 on:** January 30, 2013, 11:46:04 PM »

cabrala · « **Reply #20 on:** January 31, 2013, 05:25:20 AM »

Quote from: azuredesign on January 30, 2013, 08:36:27 PM

Excellent Alex, thanks!

I remember 5 gallons for a buck at a station around Worcester when I was a nipper, partially because I remember there was a joint called Hot Dog Annies that sold 5 dogs for the same price. I just looked and Annies still exists in Leicester!

Ben, sounds like we needs a ride out there to relive your past and grab some dogs. Probably not 5 for a buck anymore though...

hondalav · « **Reply #21 on:** January 31, 2013, 05:27:13 AM »

Here are some pre and post war filling stations in Germany, Netherlands and France. Text is in German, but the pictures speak for themselves. Just click on the right arrow to advance to the next picture.

http://www.autobild.de/klassik/bilder/historische-tankstellen-1186281.html

Xnavylfr · « **Reply #22 on:** January 31, 2013, 05:41:35 AM »

I remembered when I was a teen, my first girlfriends (MOM) had a Chrysler Imperial that took about 22 gals of gas and we could fill it up for about 6 bucks.Gas was 22 cents a gal and over 100 octane. THE GOOD OLD DAYS.

Xnavylfr(CHUCK)

Bailgang · « **Reply #23 on:** January 31, 2013, 06:07:04 AM »

I remember full service gas stations very well but what I remember the most growing up in the southwest suburbs of Chicago was Dukes Drive In in Bridgeview, it was were all the serious street racers and custom cars would hang out on the weekends. Dukes is still there and has since morphed itself into a horse power mecca where every weekend in the summer is literally a car show.

Anybody from the midwest remember US 30 dragstrip "where the great ones run"?

Greggo · « **Reply #24 on:** January 31, 2013, 06:09:11 AM »

Can anyone figure out how they get these cars down??

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