That's a great picture - mid 1920's? That building already looks weathered and worn judging from the broken shutters.
A buddy of mine's old 40 standard. Since sold to someone in the Spokane area. The car is in front of the T Pot Service station now moved to town and used as a tourist info center in Zillah, Wa. It looked like this when I lived across the road from it and stopped there to get my paper and a donut most mornings. It pretty well still looked like this when it was a little over a mile down the road where it had sat for 50 or so years. I stopped and got gas in my 51 Merc a time or two when I was a teenager.
There's a ghost town in sw corner of ND, not far from where I grew up. Still has the old store with visible gas pump in front. Last inspection tag on it reads 1941. The iron bridge across the river stands to the south, and to the southeast is the old hotel. Danny's picture reminds me of that town.
This is a very famous Dorthea Lang photo seen just about everywhere but rarely credited to her. See: https://www.moma.org/artists/3373
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