Old gas stations

[2jakes]

Rob

Studebaker!
A car that had the rear...

almost looking like the front!

 

[1mach1]

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[2jakes]

WW2 Army Surplus quonset hut gas station.

Shoemanthal's Gulf Station & Garage, Fredonia, New York. (1948)

 

[2jakes]

 

[Fading Fast]

Not quite a split-window Corvette (somebody was on their game the day they designed that Vette), but a fun looking car nonetheless. Any car-guys (in the non-gender sense) know what it is?

Edit Add: Oops, should have read to the end of the thread (had to flip forward a page) before posting to see that Commissioner 2jakes had already answered.

 

[2jakes]

Not quite a split-window Corvette (somebody was on their game the day they designed that Vette), but a fun looking car nonetheless. Any car-guys (in the non-gender sense) know what it is?

Edit Add: Oops, should have read to the end of the thread (had to flip forward a page) before posting to see that Commissioner 2jakes had already answered.

Mr. Fade , I can tell you from experience
that the rear window "sleeping compartment" on the Stude were not as comfortable as my father's Pontiac.

 

[Fading Fast]

Mr. Fade , I can tell you from experience
that the rear window "sleeping compartment" on the Stude were not as comfortable as my father's Pontiac.

That said, bet you it was a heck of a lot more comfortable than the split-window 'Vette's back shelf as a sleeping perch.

 

[2jakes]

That said, bet you it was a heck of a lot more comfortable than the split-window 'Vette's back shelf as a sleeping perch.

It was the slant of the rear window on the Stude that made it not as comfy.

This must've been inspired by a fan of
the movie "The Flying Tigers" with John Wayne!

 

[2jakes]

Mom & Pop gas station

Fresh milk!

 

[2jakes]

Cut-throat rates!

 

[Frunobulax]

Mom & Pop gas station
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Fresh milk!
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Marvelube. Is that what Iron Man uses?

 

[LizzieMaine]

Those postwar Studebakers were a product of the Raymond Loewy design shop, the same industrial-design firm that gave us the 1960s "Controlled Background" Shell logo and the original 1972 Exxon sign.

 

[2jakes]

Marvelube. Is that what Iron Man uses?

 

[2jakes]

Those postwar Studebakers were a product of the Raymond Loewy design shop, the same industrial-design firm that gave us the 1960s "Controlled Background" Shell logo and the original 1972 Exxon sign.

 

[Fading Fast]

For me, Loewy will always bring the Broadway Limited to mind:

 

[2jakes]

My mini version of the 20th Century Limited

Pull toy from the Depression era.

Background shadow reminds me of the Hindenburg

 

[Ghostsoldier]

Rob

 

[LizzieMaine]

Ahhhh, the big dip sticks for the tanks. That's a severe sense memory for me -- you had to smear the end of each stick with a viscous purple cream stuff out of a little Vapo-Rub type jar before dropping the stick into the tank. The cream would turn red if there was water in the bottom of the tank, alerting you of the need to Deal With The Problem. I don't remember ever ordering any of that purple stuff, but it always seemed to be on hand.

 

[2jakes]

Chain gang

 

[Ghostsoldier]

Rob