Old gas stations

[BlueTrain]

Too many of these pictures remind me of home. And why I left.

 

[2jakes]

There’s no place like home!
Buttermilk Junction 1937

Gas Shack 1920s

 

[BlueTrain]

When was the Golden Era again?

 

[2jakes]

Somewhere over the rainbow!

 

[59Lark]

NO photos, but a story , I live in the house that once was the garage owners house for a supertest gas station, Fred Fiddy was his name and he had the last gas station going out of town or the first coming in, which ever way you like it. FOR close to 50 yrs his family ran this garage, he kept his pearl white oldsmobile in back part of the garage and he didn't believe in banks and people were always breaking in too find his cash and never did, I think he made more money as a landlord had up to 4 houses around here , some he build himself. MY house he hardly put any money into, I had to rebuild it , it was close to 1940s when I bought it, paul from down the street remembers buying candy and soda from fred as a child. My late neighbor from around the block, remembered fred rebuild a pre war dodge six for him after coming home from the war, one of my late customers renting the brick house next to me from fred for $50. a month in the 1950s , the final story is the tale, when he finally retired in his 80s , fred bought a big house in the country and within a year was caught driving that 1940 pearl white oldsmobile down the wrong side of the road and had his license taken away. whe I first bought this property there was a sidewalk in the middle of my sideyard that led to a side door of the garage, I ripped that out, built a store on the side of my house for my trade an grew a hedge which is now 6 feet tall but I always thought I could fred walking down that sidewalk to the garage for 50 yrs. 59LARK

 

[2jakes]

 

[David Conwill]

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This image deserves a link to the high-resolution original. There's SO MUCH detail to see.

 

[2jakes]

This image deserves a link to the high-resolution original. There's SO MUCH detail to see.

I did on this one which is my favorite!

 

[BlueTrain]

Now, when was the last time you saw a man carrying a black lunchbox like that?

 

[2jakes]

Someone left their black lunchbox on the ground. It’s on the left side by the
tire jack.

 

[Fading Fast]

Now, when was the last time you saw a man carrying a black lunchbox like that?

It's all coolers today for the lunch pail guys (and gals).

 

[BlueTrain]

That is one ancient truck (the bread truck) in the photo. It also reminds me of a textbook or encyclopedia illustration of one of the stages of urban decay, what with houses converted to store fronts and the like. Or it could be a weird photo book with photos taken in a lot of places but with a black old-fashioned lunchbox in every photo.

 

[Ghostsoldier]

Rob

 

[Frunobulax]

Now, when was the last time you saw a man carrying a black lunchbox like that?

I probably saw a few when I worked at the DELCO plant in the 80s. My old man carried one to NCR every day, though.


Sent directly from my mind to yours.

 

[David Conwill]

Funkytown must be Dayton, Ohio, then!

 

[2jakes]

I probably saw a few when I worked at the DELCO plant in the 80s. My old man carried one to NCR every day, though.


Sent directly from my mind to yours.

Mom would fix my lunch sandwiches for school using the plain brown paper bag
from the grocery store.
She would put my chocolate milk drink in a glass jar of Folger’s coffee.
Today you can find a similar flavor at Starbucks!

 

[Fading Fast]

And the car is? Even enlarged, I can't read the words on the front and don't recognize the emblem.

 

[3fingers]

We have one of this design here that survives. It is constructed in a mirror image of this one though since the bays are on the right. It has been a auto repair shop for many years now.

 

[BlueTrain]

And the car is? Even enlarged, I can't read the words on the front and don't recognize the emblem.

My guess is Pontiac.

 

[David Conwill]

And the car is? Even enlarged, I can't read the words on the front and don't recognize the emblem.

It's a '47-'49 Studebaker Champion. Give me a minute and I'll narrow down the year.