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01-18-2013, 10:58 PM
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have these been seen before?(old Service Stations)
have some pic's sent me the other day , i thought they were cool , old gas station pic's. here are a few. let me know if you would like some more....
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01-18-2013, 11:02 PM
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Re: have these been seen before?
WOW,all those workers,now they run themselves,I like old original pics...
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01-19-2013, 01:53 AM
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Re: have these been seen before?
Love them. Any more?
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01-19-2013, 02:33 AM
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Re: have these been seen before?
The bomber in portland . It's still there but a little worse for wear
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01-19-2013, 04:32 AM
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Re: have these been seen before?
I like 'em.
Seems it takes us back to a slower paced life, or do we only remember the good stuff from when we were younger? More if you have them. Cayoterun
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Cayoterun Okla. Panhandle I think I'll do it myself and pay the extra $500. |
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01-19-2013, 08:30 AM
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Re: have these been seen before?
I have never seen so many pumps together with out a roof overhead?
There are (or have been) thousands upon thousands of small 2 or 3 pump places that didn't, but that one pic has quite a few...
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01-19-2013, 09:44 AM
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Re: have these been seen before?
I wonder where that "serve yourself" Gilmore station as? It looks really early, and we sure didn't have any "self serve" gas around here in the northeast, before the late 60's. I remember the first one I ever saw, in eastern New York state, probably around 1967, and thought, uh-oh.(I was "professionally" pumping gas at the time
 and figured it was time to train for a new job.....the first of many times I realized my job or trade was going to be eliminated!  )Notice the old glass oil bottles....we had those filled with "drain oil" for the real cheapskates with blue smoke bombers...before it got illegal to pollute the air! |
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01-19-2013, 10:37 AM
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Re: have these been seen before?
well it looks like i need to post a few more....
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01-19-2013, 10:40 AM
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Re: have these been seen before?
more.
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01-19-2013, 10:42 AM
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Re: have these been seen before?
more..
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01-19-2013, 10:44 AM
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Re: have these been seen before?
a few more
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01-19-2013, 10:51 AM
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Re: have these been seen before?
Wow...
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01-19-2013, 10:52 AM
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01-19-2013, 10:52 AM
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Re: have these been seen before?
Gas price was 26.+-, a new '58 Impala could be bought for $2,200, new car payments were $75. a month or less, but wages were $100. a week or less.
The Pontiac station wagon and Spartan trailer house. Spartan cost less than $3,000, No bathroom or holding tanks back then, and that rig was for the rich folks. Nice! Thanks for the memories, Cayoterun
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Cayoterun Okla. Panhandle I think I'll do it myself and pay the extra $500. Last edited by cayoterun; 01-19-2013 at 11:05 AM. |
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01-19-2013, 11:09 AM
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Re: have these been seen before?(old Service Stations)
the last ones i have....
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01-19-2013, 11:12 AM
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Re: have these been seen before?(old Service Stations)
last few
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01-19-2013, 11:14 AM
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Re: have these been seen before?(old Service Stations)
again
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01-19-2013, 12:49 PM
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Re: have these been seen before?(old Service Stations)
Those glass motor oil bottles in pic 5 post 1 bring back some memories. Handle with care !
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01-19-2013, 01:20 PM
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Re: have these been seen before?(old Service Stations)
Gotta love the 2, 3, 4 man teams working the gas islands. When I worked at a Chevron station in Calif, we trained for service.....one guy pumping the gas, one guy washing ALL the windows & lights....one guy checking the air in the tires, oil level, washer fluid, radiator. Even the fan belts, wiper blades, ....and the latest lube sticker on the door jamb, if we could! We'd probably wash your eyeglasses if they needed it! We got a small commission for everything we could upsell at the island, plus sometimes contests with prizes for the most TBA sales! And the uniforms! clean white shirts and a little hat, too. One promotion I remember...."come to Chevron Island!" we had Hawaiian shirts and fake palm trees strapped to the islands! Man, times have changed.
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01-19-2013, 01:29 PM
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Re: have these been seen before?(old Service Stations)
Way to cool, love them old pics
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01-19-2013, 10:18 PM
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Re: have these been seen before?(old Service Stations)
i can remember in the late 60's working at a Texaco in big spring Texas and we even cleaned the ash tray and if you wanted us to we would vacume out the floor board...and the boss made 4 cents a gallon for every gallon we sold, and i got $1.25 an hour.
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01-20-2013, 02:09 AM
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Re: have these been seen before?(old Service Stations)
Those pictures really take me back! Thanks for those!!
I worked at a full-service Mobil station in SoCal, woulda been summer of '75, and at the end of the summer they went to self-serve and I was out of a job 
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01-20-2013, 07:49 AM
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Re: have these been seen before?(old Service Stations)
Sounds like there's enough of us old gas jockeys here to have our own club!
I earned my stripes starting at a local Chevy dealer in CT who had Esso gas, then moved to the local Chevron, and a short stint at a Texaco. The old dealership is now an empty lot, the other two are used car lots. Actually, the chevron I think might still have the metal panels on the building, but they are painted brown. They both have a second story added with some kind of offices upstairs. After high school, I went out to Calif, and worked at a Chevron station, at W.San Carlos & Meridian, in San Jose, across the street from Sears. I haven't been there since 1970, it must be gone for sure! Once in a while, around here, you will run across a station with full serv, at least at one island. You pay extra, but sometimes if it's REAL cold, I pull in. They have never once washed my windshield or asked to check under the hood...."full serve," my a$$......I could show 'em full serve! 
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01-20-2013, 12:54 PM
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Re: have these been seen before?(old Service Stations)
Heres a few more.
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01-20-2013, 12:56 PM
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Re: have these been seen before?(old Service Stations)
I could'nt help but post a few pic's of how the oil and gas made it's way to them.
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