History Images of vintage gas stations ~ pre 65

Dad Lee's Open Air Museum northeast of Lovelock, Nevada on Victory Highway (U.S. Route 40) c. 1929.
C. M. "Dad" Lee was born around 1847 & came West in the early 1870's, residing in California for some years.
In the 1920's Dad Lee ran a Shell service station on road between Oreana & Rochester Canyon in Pershing County, Nevada & built a replica of an old-time trading post, collecting artifacts for display. Around 1929, Lee moved his operation to spot northeast of Lovelock on Victory Highway (U.S. Route 40), calling it Dad Lee's Open Air Museum. Dad Lee was just one of the many crusty characters that colored the landscape of Nevada. As a colorful character & an embellishment artist, the teller of tall tales, the self appointed "King of the Desert" even claimed to be the "Real Buffalo Bill" citing the other guy was an impostor! Mr. Lee died in 1934.
Mr. Lee is buried at the Lovelock Cemetery-section K according to his head stone his bd 1826 which would make him 108. According to San Francisco Historian Society

 

San Antonio,Tx. 1938

 

Jasper Al

 

an early example

 

1950s, when a gas station was called a service station.

 

Those should be in ''Gas Stations Today-Derelict or Period Restored'' JW

 

Gulf station at Bedford interchange of the Pennsylvania turnpike. Year not known.

Hi-Test for your 60 Impala.


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Jasper Al
Dodge Brothers dealership with gas pump

 

This station is about 4 blocks from my house. An early pic of my Henry there.

 

Refer to post #2020. JW

 

Henry J to the rescue...or is that an Allstate ???

 

Steve and Margaret Hoggs Phillips 66, in Texola, Ok. just over the state line of Tx, on old Rte.66

 

NW 16th Street looking west toward Indiana Ave. Oklahoma City, Gas was affordable, and the Oil Companies were the richest of all.

 

^^^The casino bar looks busy as well.

 

Hanceville Al

Garden City Al

 

'Crossing Garage Narrogin' 1937 - State Library of Western Australia; other vehicle is a Vauxhall