Gas Stations From Back in The Model T Era

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Here is a neat gas station even though it has a brand X sign on top of it.
 
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Interesting, a Chevrolet sign on top of the building and a Ford sign, just inside the door.
Lots of interesting advertising.
MIKE :)
 
The car inside looks to be mid to late 20s & not new.

In 1929 my father taught all 8 grades at a one room school for $600 per year. An annual wage of $60,000 is not unusual today -- so gas should cost $22.00 per gal. We must be living in the good old days!!
 
22 cents per gallon While traveling through Detroit in the summer of '71, I needed to "top up" before heading back to Niagara. Detroit gas stations were in a gas war! Filled 'er up for 22 cents a gallon!
Can't see this ever happening again.
 
We were selling gas in 1987-1989 for .99/gallon. I think wages had risen quite a bit by then compared to the 20's or the 70's.
 
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The Good Gulf was only 18 CENTS a gallon in this photo showing a Gulf merchandising center. Can anyone date this pump or tell us more about it?
 
What a beautiful set-up ! Who wouldn't like to have that ?
I have one of those pump-mounted price signs.
MIKE :)
 
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This is The Parkhurst Auto Co., Webster City, Iowa. We found out quite a bit about them when we did a detailed post about them on theoldmotor.com It turns out this is were the P&L Model T valve adjustors were manufactured.

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I like the valve adjuster idea! Sounds similar to the latest new car and motorcycle technology whereby valve lash is set by adding/removing shims of varying thicknesses. Those Iowa "hicks" were way ahead of their time!
 
40 Deluxe said:
I like the valve adjuster idea! Sounds similar to the latest new car and motorcycle technology whereby valve lash is set by adding/removing shims of varying thicknesses. Those Iowa "hicks" were way ahead of their time!
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You might change your view if you had ever worked on a Jaguar!
 
Jack Innes said:
The car inside looks to be mid to late 20s & not new.

In 1929 my father taught all 8 grades at a one room school for $600 per year. An annual wage of $60,000 is not unusual today -- so gas should cost $22.00 per gal. We must be living in the good old days!!
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$60,000 is a huge amount of money!
 
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$60,000 is a huge amount of money!
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It certainly is! The average wage for a primary school teacher wit 6 years experience in Ontario, Canada is from $42,258 to $73,472 in 2012. The Canadian dollar is worth $.98 US dollars today.

I am about 10 miles from the GM plant in Oshawa, Ontario. It is not unusual for an hourly employee to make $100,000 in a year with a respectable ammount of overtime added in.
 
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