Old time gas stations
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Seth Swoboda
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They used a lot of neat advertsing and signs then. I like the photo with the railroad tank car on the elevated track, the EPA would crap all over themselves in this day and age!
Modelakid31
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Thanks for sharing those pics! they are very interesting photos.
Richard/Ca
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Great pictures! The no. 3 picture looks like it should fit right in todays economy. Now that a second set of pictures showed up. What I was referring to was in the first bunch of pictures and the business behind the gas station.
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gunmetal blue
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Thank you soo much I will add them to my collection.
Jack '29 Sport Coupe
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Nice pictures, thanks for sharing.
Jack
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Milton
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Wow, first six pics, then five more and who woulda though a dead match of the eleven pics that I have.
Randy in ca
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I've seen the very first picture before (the one with the car up a ramp and over some sort of an assembly) and recall quite a discussion and several theories as to the apparatus the car was on. I believe it may have been on the old Fordbarn and in the end someone nailed it (but of course I've forgotten). Anybody have any idea?
Post #4 led me to go back to the very 1st picture and blow it up to see more detail. It does look like a dyno and the fellow with the lever uses it to put a load on the vehicle. Whatever is going on has drawn a small crowd of observers. Counting the hat brims at the very edge of the picture, I count 9 or 10 guys watching.
I got it large enough to fill half of a standard sheet of paper and when I printed it, it came out a lot lighter than the original thumbnail. I can clearly see the facial features of the guy in the driver's seat and can count the rafters in the roof structure. Below the spare tire is a rod apparently hooked to the rear axle to hold the car in place. What else do you see? Has anybody ever seen anything like this before?
I got it large enough to fill half of a standard sheet of paper and when I printed it, it came out a lot lighter than the original thumbnail. I can clearly see the facial features of the guy in the driver's seat and can count the rafters in the roof structure. Below the spare tire is a rod apparently hooked to the rear axle to hold the car in place. What else do you see? Has anybody ever seen anything like this before?
Tom Wesenberg
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Sometimes a shade tree mechanic has to carry his own shade trees.
This is an old gas station that was moved to the Nowthen threshing show grounds a few years ago. Last summer I bought a couple trees at the Saturday auction during the show.
Aerocraft
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Great pictures Ross and Tom! Also really like the Shell station at Gilmore in the background of Ross' Avatar. That could be one of the most photographed old gas stations around.
Tom, you are using the A the way I believe they should be used! Somewhere I have a series of annual pictures of our family of four in our Coupe with a fresh cut Christmas tree in the rumble seat. The kids sure remember it and the salt damage was fixed later.
Gar Williams
Tom, you are using the A the way I believe they should be used! Somewhere I have a series of annual pictures of our family of four in our Coupe with a fresh cut Christmas tree in the rumble seat. The kids sure remember it and the salt damage was fixed later.
Gar Williams
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