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Tourist cabins, auto and motor courts

2jakes

I'll Lock Up
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9,680
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Alamo Heights ☀️ Texas
Texaco Porcelain gas station door knob:
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Is now the stick-shift knob.
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Radiator cap by Texaco:
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’46 GM. Inside glove-compartment are old Texaco & Mobil maps.

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17,198
Location
New York City
Perhaps labor was cheap when this place was built? Or the original owner was a skilled stonemason looking by a bit of self-expression?

Both are smart possibilities. NYC is loaded with pre-war buildings that have incredibly intricate stonework that, I've been told, were built by an army of cheap, but highly skilled ("in the old country") immigrant labor. Also, they say, no one could afford today to hirer that type of skilled worker in the quantities needed to replicate that work. So that could explain it or, as you also note, it could have just been the whimsy of the owner.
 

Stanley Doble

Call Me a Cab
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2,808
Location
Cobourg
Perhaps labor was cheap when this place was built? Or the original owner was a skilled stonemason looking by a bit of self-expression?
Cities like New York are full of buildings built and decorated by skilled stone masons before the 1930s. Then the modern glass and brick, or glass and aluminum look came in and the stone masons were out of work. Then of course large building projects ground to a halt in the depression.

It was not unknown for those who could afford it, to do building projects like that to give employment to local labor during the depression.
 

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