History Images of vintage gas stations ~ pre 65

Montgomery Alabama. Illegally torn down

 

1955 Pennsylvania

 

johnathan winters before he was famous

 

'36 Plymouths

 

This is the gas station that I use as a garage and workshop now - pic is early 1950s.

 

Guy's use the dirt around back

 

Bodie, now a Ghost town in California Mountains

 

Walt Knoch of the "Walt's Puffer" Fiat and T altereds of the 1960s?

 

Regular or Ethyl (High Test)

 

Montgomery Alabama. Soon to be gone.

 

2 more still holding on in Montgomery Alabama. If only they could talk.

 

Lifted this one from another site
Here is a photo of "Jerry's Garage Service Station" on Route 66 in Albuquerque, New Mexico taken in 1939. If you are into auto racing history this nondescript-looking building might mean something to you. It is the original Unser Garage site and is just east of Unser Blvd. on Central Avenue SW. In the early 1940s, the Unser's ran a wrecking service here and later added a gas station. The Unser family is one of the most famous names in Indianapolis 500 racing history. Jerry Unser, Sr., (father of race car drivers Jerry Jr., Louie, Bobby, and Al Unser) owned this auto repair garage in Albuquerque, NM. By 1955 Unser's shop was unusual -- he offered repair services for foreign cars. At one time or another, all the Unser brothers worked in their father's auto repair shop.
This photo comes from the Bobby Unser collection.
There is, also, the Unser Racing Museum that is well worth seeing:

 

Looks like that sign on the left could say Depoe Bay, so I did some prowling on line

I came up with this one

Texaco station (though older and smaller), same knobby hill, and the Spouting Horn Restaurant clearly in view in the background, just over the bridge on the World's Smallest Harbor.

Could be?

 

There is a little hole in the wall Thai restaurant a couple doors south of that Texaco station, been there a couple times, always great food.

 

Good catch Sherlock!!!

 

Elementary my dear phonebooth, elementary.

 

Whatever works

 

full service ^^^

 

Reminds me a jingle;
You can trust your car,
to the girl that will go far...

 

Wow, how many of these were built (no, pervert, the car)?

 

Never Mind

1947 Ford Super Deluxe ConvertibleAuto Museum Online

Ford Motor Company produced 429,600 vehicles in 1947. A total of 22,150 Super deluxe Convertibles were built that model year. largest production total for 1947 went to the Super Deluxe Tudor Sedan at 136,125 units.

 

I'm not terribly fluent as to the differences of the 42-48 Fords so I had to look it up and the photo I posted says June 1943, I'm thinking this may be a war era car.
A somewhat reduced civilian issue car I would think.

 

You are right. Louisville Kentucky 1943.

Virginia Lively used to be a beauty operator, today she works at a Sears gas station. Louisville, Kentucky, June 1943


1940s

 

Production Figures
1942 Ford Super Deluxe technical and mechanical specifications (conceptcarz.com)

Total Ford Production for 1942 : 160,432
Total 1942 Super Deluxe production : 89,402
1942 Ford Super Deluxe
Convertible 2 dr. 5 P : 2,920
Coupe 2 dr. 3 P : 5,411
Coupe Sedan 2 dr. 5 P : 13,543
Fordor 4 dr. 6 P : 24,846
Station Wagon 4 dr. 6 P : 5,483
Tudor 2 dr. 6 P : 37,199