History Images of vintage gas stations ~ pre 65

Filling we up and getting outta town...

 

Looks like Al Capone on the left



France

 

Hell of a tow rig....

 

^^ where is Lucille Ball to ride in one of those long, long trailers?

 

Love those vintage trailers. If you asked anybody today they'd be telling you that you need a crew cab dually with a diesel to pull one. A long way from how folks got by back then.

 

They pulled theirs in a beautiful convertible Mercury....love that movie

 

Early Self Service

 

Old gas station in New Zealand...just out of Stratford on the way to the 'Forgotten Highway'...used it as the background for a magazine photo shoot on a cool old A..

 

Wyandotte, Mi Elm and 4th. Then and now

 

Wyandotte, Mi, now a 7-11...

 

That’s awesome....1 side of my Family live from 14th to 21st street....never left..my Mom grew up on 16th. My aunt worked at Jerry’s Meat Market for 37 years...all my Relatives went to Roosevelt High

 

Jodhpurs! In both pictures!

 

I had a link sent to me and it was of old pictures of Canadian prairie towns. I had the idea of going through it and saving the pictures of gas stations, steam tractors, farm trucks, etc. Once I got finished I read that there were 18,000 pictures on the site. I saved 1,351 pictures and am now going through them. Here is a sample.

 

You say, they got away with 15.7 gallons worth $3.89 ?
That's right Detective.

 

I don't recall ever seeing that design for a Shell station. Was it common enough that anyone else remembers seeing them?
Bob

 

Can't remember who the architect was but was a famous one during the art deco era