History Images of vintage gas stations ~ pre 65

I joined so I could share this old family photo.

This is the B&R Garage in Hannibal, Missouri, operated by my Great Uncle, Don Edison Barker, and his business partner, Roy Ranacker. They were also a Ford dealership. Barker is second from right, in white shirt, and I believe Ranacker is at the far right.

Any guesses on the year?

 

1946 Ford y'all! Not '47 or '48.

 

Nope Photograph was taken in 1943 so '42 is it.
Virginia Lively used to be a beauty operator, today she works at a Sears gas station. Louisville, Kentucky, June 1943


1940s

 

You got me there, lol.

 

Oakland,Ca.

 

RT.66 Postcards

 

There's just something about a woman wearing a 4 barrel coin changer . . .

 

Main St.

 

Rte.66 Postcard

 

Rte 66 Truck Stop McClean,Illinois

 

Oklahoma Rte. 66
Before and after

 

Then & Now Odell, Illinois

 

ESSO Owner = Joe Blowe ?

 

The guy rolling paint looks like he is say'n WTF, I'm rolling it on and you are hosing it off!

 

He's cleaning the wall not painting it. JW

 

Skull Valley, AZ. Now a coffee shop.

 

Full Service

 

Wrong thread. There is anothet thread for then and now.

 

Old Gas Stations Today, Derelict Or Period Restored. Its one i started to keep this one focused on the pre 65 photos of gas stations. JW

 

1920's Rte. 66 Waynesville, Missouri

 

Here is a Mobiloil gas station and "Auto Laundry" at North Florissant and Bremen (City Route 66), St. Louis, Missouri, circa 1932. The resolution of this photo is fantastic. We believe this is the first car wash photo we have ever seen on old Route 66. It says "Car Washed $1.50".
This is courtesy of the St. Louis Library and Joe Sonderman.

 

How many thousands of dollars are those signs worth today?

 

'Filling my Singer 9 h.p. car with Purr Pull petrol at Horan's Garage' - photo by Sam Hood [1872-1953]; State L ibrary of New South Wales

 

'Sydney Service Station, Flinders Street' - photo by Sam Hood [1872-1953]; State Library of New South Wales