Posted on 03/20/2011 1:33:45 PM PDT by P.O.E.
(snip)...I thought it might be fun to relive that long past era when gas stations were truly “service stations” with a look at some of the major gasoline brands as seen through some of their old marketing photos. Gas station architecture is a fascinating genre unto itself, ranging from crude, early stations with curbside pumps to the elaborate mini-Roman temples of the 1930’s. Our focus here will be on stations from the 1960’s, for two reasons – first, a decent number of them still exist, albeit with heavy modifications and rarely under their original brands, and secondly, I’m sure that some of you remember these great stations in their heyday. (snip)
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I completely forgot about those, but now that you mention it, I remember getting chased off many times when we would ride our bikes over those trying to get the bell to ring :)
I had a model texaco station made of metal with a lift, parking on the top of the station, little oil cans and cars and a little texeco man
I also had Roy Rogers and Dale Evens’s farm with all the characters and Tinkerbelle the Jeep. Tinkerbelle often filled up at the Texeco station.
I had a blessed childhood.
Anyone remember the Texaco tiger tails than hung from the fill doors of cars. I think one would get one if the car was filled up.
“You can trust your car to the man who wears the star...’’ I remember when a ‘’gas-station’’ was called a ‘’filling station’’ and they gave Green Stamps.
Anyone remember the Texaco tiger tails than hung from the fill doors of cars.
I think that was ESSO or EXXON/Mobile in today’s world.
I remember the TV commercials for GAS.
Put a Tiger-in-your-Tank.
Like the TV commercials for cigarettes, the GAS commercials would employ musical phrases that would stay with you forever.
As my father would say, “Those were the days...”
That pump is just gorgeous. I’ve never seen one before. Was it a regional thing (I’ve never heard of Mohawk gas)?
When I worked at a station many years ago an old OLD man would come in and request four gallons of gas, not dollars worth.
That was a hold out from back in the days of those pumps.
We used to call them 'filling stations' which may have been a colloquialism.
I remember those days too. I can remember paying the same amount during a comparable gas war in 1964. Ah, now THOSE were the days.
You mean petrol stations?
I never go to blogs but this one is well worth the visit!
It ain’t being pimped either.
In England maybe.
They were typically called fillin' stations in the south.
Agreed.
Original and well done.
I’m sure the bloggers union will file a complaint.
The pumps were all over the place. I’m sure the gas brand was regional, as there used to be dozens of regional gas station franchises.
...and the older I get, the better I was. :{)
The back roads in these parts are dotted with defunct little gas stations still sporting their glass globe-topped pumps.
Surprisingly, the kids haven’t broken ‘em yet.
Depressingly, I remember when they were open and dad filled up the new ‘63 Ford Fairlane convertible [which replaced the ‘57 Chevy now that he was a “family man”] on our “Sunday joy rides”.
[which were sorta more like “Thunder Road” without the ‘shine in the trunk...I’m assuming that, anyway...his dad died of “lead poisoning” for that in the ‘30s and I know it’s genetic]
They still are, here.
[we’re a little backwards....we didn’t get disco until the early 80s]
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