History Images of vintage gas stations ~ pre 65

KNOX Gas Station NE 23rd & Eastern. Okla City. 1956.
Ethyl's Gas & Grocery


Farmers Union Oil

Fresno, Ca.

 

Spotted Horse, Wy
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Ohio 1943

Virginia City, Mt.

 

All the best for the new year Dave and thanks for your great efforts on both Gas Station threads. JW

 

Gas & Oil

Benzoil

Little America

Winter in Burney, Ca.

Keep Smiling

 

Still there in 2024 and appears to be operating as the Spotted Horse Bar.

 

KNOX Station at SW 29th and Agnew in Okla City. 1962.
(Knox out the Knox with no Knox)

Cofffee

Weddell's

Marple, Pa.

Ocala, Fla.

 

Dave, you sure have a way of finding stuff that I'm familiar with. Post #2617 shows the Knox gas station on SW 29th in Oklahoma City. It is now a pawn shop, (circled in blue), but when I was newly graduated out of high school in Mustang, 15 miles southwest, that Knox was where a friend who worked there and I primered my '50 Ford one night after the station closed. Neither of us had ever painted anything before and had absolutely no idea that you had to use a regulator, but we managed to get the car masked off and then the fun began. We had an old Craftsman one quart gun hooked up to this giant compressor that probably had never been drained. We thinned the primer 1 to 4, loaded the gun and I started spraying. The gun was empty in about two minutes. 10 minutes later, everything on the car was painted except for one patch on the driver's door about 18 inches in diameter. I had also managed to overspray the windows, all the stock on the shelves and both of us. I'm sure the owner of the station was more than a little irritated when he opened next morning.

The area circled in yellow was where the Airline Drive-In Restaurant was located. I worked there the summer of '62 into the summer of '63. I quit when the owner wanted me to manage another drive in on the north side of OKC. His idea was for me to sleep on a cot in the back of the restaurant and be there seven days a week. I politely declined even though it meant his good-looking bow-legged daughter would be working there also.

Thanks for the memories

Alan Purvis

 

Pioneer Filling Station

Route 66

Signal Station

1927 Service Station

 

Being a Willys owner it's cool to see the odd Willys at a Gas Station, in this case a 33 in the 3rd pic above. JW

 

That's a dandy looking little roadster in the background of this photo. Anybody care to take a guess at what make it is?

 

My uneducated guess , it might be a Buick ?

 

I had a go but came up empty, was thinking Star but no. It has something mounted on top of the front fenders and most of that era has the spare on the back. JW

 

I'm not sure where this one is located. Yuk, yuk.

 

Looks like Paramount Studios, Hollywood.

 

Was thinking a movie set as many small details seem a bit new, cool all the same. JW

 

These are all gas stations in my town (Polo,Il.) circa 1964-5
My 2 brothers and I worked at the Shell staion on and off for several tears during high school.

 

Those aerial shots give a whole new perspective, very cool. JW

 

General Store Paradice, Mi.
Dee's General Store Vancleave, Ms.


Twin Oaks DuBois, Pa.