Blocking pumps

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Dave Mellor NJ

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Lousy park job
 

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I guess you would call that an early convenience store.

Those 2 pumps are just begging to be run over by some drunk.
 
Going by the cars, photo is from the early-mid 40's. Surprised that these pumps were still in service, I was a kid in the 40's and never saw a visable pump in service in our area.
 
Interesting picture.Looks like the building is somewhat neglected.Doesn't look like the gas pumps are in use.Also,the trees have been denuded.Tornado?? Whatever it was,happened long enough earlier for the suckers to start regrowing out of the trunks again.That would be about a summers worth of growth here.The roofline looks kind of weird,maybe damage? Or maybe other buildings behind it,or maybe just the old picture.Farm oriented with that DeLaval sign in the window.
 
I think the trees are trimmed each year. We do that here. Might be early fall as the shoots from last year have not been cut off. The Model A has what looks like chains on the rear tires and mud on the body. In that era that would have been an inexpensive off-road vehicle.
 
fundytides said:
Going by the cars, photo is from the early-mid 40's. Surprised that these pumps were still in service, I was a kid in the 40's and never saw a visable pump in service in our area.
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I lived in a small farming community in SW New Mexico in the mid '50s, The General Store there had 2 electric pumps and one of these visible pumps for use when the electricity went out, which it frequently did,
 
During the war when i was 4 or 5 years old, I would "help" my great uncle pump the gas to fill into the visible pumps at his gas station. This was in a little town in the middle of Missouri.
 
During the late 1960's, when traveling in Baja California, we ran across many visible pumps still in operation.
 
When traveling in our Model A through British Columbia in 19
In the late 1980s I stopped for gas in Cotni Bay and they were using a pump like in the picture.
 
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