Ghostsoldier
Call Me a Cab
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- Starke, Florida, USA
Damn, that's a big one, too.
Rob
Rob
That one, and the old station, was torn down in 1959, to be replaced by a new station on the same site with the new Standard of Indiana torch-and-oval logo.
It's still there, although the face was changed in the '70s to say "Amoco," and it continued to say "Amoco" all thru Amoco's absorption by BP in the 1990s. And now the Amoco brand is returning.
The gas station just down the road from the Bates Motel, I presume.
And this would be the gas station that Duke Mantee held up before holing up at the desert diner? (No, I guess not, if it's a "Texas" diner.)
Sometime after the fall of 1960. Parked to the far left is one of the first generation Lincoln Continentals, which first appeared in late 1960 as a 1961 model. And the Falcon near it, and the Chevies, all seem to be from the same time period.
The 1956 Chevy, which I've always thought was the best-looking of the famous Tri-Fives (the '55, 56, and '57).. . .
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Rob
Now that Chevy looks like mid- to late Sixties, but the hair on the 3 white kids -- sideburns on the one at the hood, the long hair on the one with the letterman jacket, and the long sweep of the blond kid's hair -- make them look like the kids I went to high school with, and graduated with in 1971. So this could be from a little later, early '70s, and the car is one a few years old that Letterman Dude has fixed up and put fancy wheels on.
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Rob
Gas station with different Texaco gas pumps. Part of double exposure can be seen to the right
Winchester, Virginia. February 1940
There are numerous buildings in my area like this one that have been been converted to taco, BBQ or convenience stores.