Old gas stations

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And the truck in the foreground is, IMHO, the iconic pickup truck - those lines say GE pickup truck to me.

In the back of the “iconic” truck with my sisters and cousins on a Sunday ride.
Bored and wishing I was somewhere else!

 

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Ahhh...the "Sunday ride"...a staple of tradition in my family; to this day, I credit my own "traveling Jones" to this time-honored ritual.

Rob

 

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When the truck was in motion...I had to face forward, otherwise I’d get carsick
“faster than a speeding bullet”....no kidding!



Btw: It was around this time period period on a
typical Sunday ride, My mom noticed flying disks way up in
the sky.
I saw them too. There were three back to back.
Within less than a minute they picked up speed and vanished.
No sound.
This was in ’49. We didn’t own a television set and flying saucers
was words that were unknown to us or for that matter, science-fiction
movies until the 50s.

 

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Rob

 

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Rob

7 Elevens are all gone in my area.

Thing is.... I can't recall when they arrived or left.

Similar to Stop-n-Go stores.

No pun intended!

 

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Rob

7 Elevens are all gone in my area.

Thing is.... I can't recall when they arrived or left.

Similar to Stop-n-Go.

No pun intended!

The timeline of that shot is getting pretty close to my childhood as that picture could have been lifted out of my, very early, memory.

As to 7 Elevens - they have been moving in (yes, in) to NYC over the past ten or so years and knocking out the generic "bodegas" and mom-and-pop old-style small grocery stores. The 7 Elevens aren't so much stealing business, but locations as they can pay higher rents and the mom and pops are closing as the lease renewals come up. I have nothing against 7 Elevens, but it is sad to see more local business get pushed out.

One small positive is that they say the 7 Elevens are helping the working class in the city as they are much more affordable than the old generic groceries. I go into the 7 Elevens regularly and am surprised by how reasonable the pricing is. And they are crowded with regular people like me, not the New Yorkers who "lunch."

 

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Down here in the south, we had "Jiffy" stores....I think they are still around, in a different iteration.

Rob

 

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Rob

Sometime in the Sixties. I vaguely remember gas prices like that when I was in junior high, and cars like that Buick, Corvair, and wagon.

 

[EngProf]

Sometime in the Sixties. I vaguely remember gas prices like that when I was in junior high, and cars like that Buick, Corvair, and wagon.

Those were the prices when I was in high school - ~1966. Even with my hot-rod 1965 Chevy I could buy $1 worth of premium and get by for date night.

 

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Rob

 

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Kodachrome

 

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I miss Woolworth’s and Sears Roebuck
and a time when downtown had clocks on the street corners.
The main street was decorated with Christmas lights but
only after Thanksgiving not before and Christmas trees were
real and not expensive.

I have a coat similar to this one.
Made by Woolrich Woolen Mills, Woolrich, Penna.

 

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I miss Woolworth’s and Sears Roebuck
and a time when downtown had clocks on the street corners.
The main street was decorated with Christmas lights but
only after Thanksgiving not before and Christmas trees were
real and not expensive.
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There's a very iconic, very representative-of-the-period feel to this shot.

Also, how perfect that it captured both Woolworth and Sears.

And I have no idea why, but I love seeing casement windows opened. I know of only one building that put in new windows in my lifetime that put in casements. I don't understand why as they are much, much more functional than up and down windows.

 

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If I had my druthers....

I'll put a tigress in my tank!

Plexiglass Pontiac!

 

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Electrical Band

 

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"Hey Mr. Tambourine Man.... play a song for me....in the jingle-jangle mornin'...
I’ll come following you!"

"Lady... you can get off the running board now,
John Dillinger has done fled the scene!"

"Hey Burt.... where's the banjos?"

 

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