Old gas stations

[LizzieMaine]

Same store, same day, different angle. Note the remains of the Craddock-Terry Fine Shoes sign above the upper-story window. One stop shopping. Note also the short wing at the left of the building has since been demolished.

 

[Ghostsoldier]

Rob

 

[1955mercury]

Rob

That's a 1947 Chevy in the top photo with a 1947 tag on it. So that Chevy was new when that photo was taken.

 

[Stearmen]

Fill er up Mac? 1941 Louisiana War Games, Piper L4 Grasshopper.

 

[Ghostsoldier]

Rob

 

[LizzieMaine]

Looks like somebody vandalized three of the globes on those pumps -- apparently somebody some scab doesn't like the idea of the Texas Truckers Association!

 

[Ghostsoldier]

It's Texas...they were probably used for target practice, lol.

Rob

 

[Ghostsoldier]

Rob

 

[Ghostsoldier]

Rob

 

[Fading Fast]

⇧ very clean deco lines on the Gulf station.

 

[Ghostsoldier]

Rob

 

[LizzieMaine]

"The Eiffel Windmill?"

 

[2jakes]

Back in 2014, I posted the Gordonton gas station photo by Dorothea Lange.
There are several variations and also one was colorized and submitted to the
Shorpy Photo Archives.

Soon after in 2014, V.C. Brunswick posted a follow-up and the way it looked in later years.
Not sure of the date. But it's interesting that it is still standing.

 

[2jakes]

Ellwood Gas Station.
Barnsdall & Rio Grande Oil Co.
Los Angeles, 1929

 

[Ghostsoldier]

A few more from my weekend travels...

Rob

 

[LizzieMaine]

Good example of a paint-lease station -- the painted brickwork walls and the bolted on speed lines make for a reasonable conversion of this station to the Teague Texaco format. The "Ethyl" plate on the pump would be non-regulation after the rebranding of Texaco Ethyl to Sky Chief in 1938, but regulations were made to be ignored, especially in paint-lease situations. The poster in the window advertising "STRETCH the life of your car" suggests the photo was taken during the war era, when such themes were heavily emphasized.

 

[Ghostsoldier]

Rob

 

[BobHufford]

Diggin' the Willys Wagon.

My first car was a '51.

 

[2jakes]

There’s a 50s Willys without a gas tank & title that I paid $100.
It's still sitting in the backyard at my mother’s home.
Someday, I may go over and restore it.
Someday.

 

[Benzadmiral]

Rob

A, lemme see now, a Ford Galaxie (the lettering on the front fender is long enough to be that word). '65, I think; the headlights and grille were a bit different for '66. . . .