Old Gas Stations and Related Items

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Post your photos of old gas or service stations and related items. Any format, B&W or color, digital or film.

 

[neal3k]

Drive With Care and .... by Neal Wellons, on Flickr

Welcome Center on Ultramax Film by Neal Wellons, on Flickr

On Film - Gilbert Tank by Neal Wellons, on Flickr

 

[Keith]

 

[GMOG]

 

[Bill Blackwell]

 

[Rob-F]

Ok I have a couple. Lt's start with one in Oakley, Kansas.

Do you remember, "Drive with care and buy Sinclair?"

 

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How many remember ESSO before EXXON. Their slogan was put a tiger in your tank. Think that was ESSO.

When I was a kid, many many years ago, there were gas wars where stations near each other would cut prices and cut prices to lure customers away from the other stations. When I got my first car in the 60’s gas was regularly 25.9 cents / gallon and often 17.9/gal. I remember my dad buying gas for 14.9/gal.

Gas stations often gave premiums like a dish towel or dishes if you fill up. Fill up and get a plate, saucer, bowl or whatever the piece of the week was.

Many old stations were service stations that did oil changes, tuneups and repairs.

 

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On the far end of this 30’s deco building was a Conoco service station.

 

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Bisbee AZ

 

[raydm6]

I’m here in Phnom Penh for a few more weeks. I was surprised to see attendants pumping gas and doing windshield cleaning with a squeegee and towel. I can’t remember the last time I saw that in the USA.

 

[Deleted member 65559]

Richfield Utah (?)
Fuji GW680lll, Tri-X, print on Forte Polygrade Warmtone

 

[Deleted member 65559]

Gas Station Door, E. Washington
Leica, Tri-X, print on Foma Variant FB

 

[raydm6]

These are all very good!

 

[Darthfeeble]

 

[Bob Michaels]

Clarksdale, Mississippi - 2012

 

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Remnants of a gas station on Route 66 in New Mexico.

 

[Rob-F]

How many remember ESSO before EXXON. Their slogan was put a tiger in your tank. Think that was ESSO.

When I was a kid, many many years ago, there were gas wars where stations near each other would cut prices and cut prices to lure customers away from the other stations. When I got my first car in the 60’s gas was regularly 25.9 cents / gallon and often 17.9/gal. I remember my dad buying gas for 14.9/gal.

Gas stations often gave premiums like a dish towel or dishes if you fill up. Fill up and get a plate, saucer, bowl or whatever the piece of the week was.

Many old stations were service stations that did oil changes, tuneups and repairs.

I do! I remember ESSO. And I remember Cities Service, Amoco, Texaco and Standard. Does anyone know the line spoken by the actor playing a Tiffany salesman in "Breakfast at Tiffany's" when Holly Golightly showed him a ring that came in her crackerjack box, and he saw that they still put toys in Crackerjack boxes? He said, "It gives you a feeling of continuity, almost of solidarity, with the past." I think that must be what we are looking for when we preserve these old stations in photos. In St. Louis we have a station that used to be Amoco, and it had the world's largest Amoco sign. It's now a BP station, but they have preserved the original Amoco sign, which, believe me, is huge. I need to to go shoot it on digital and post it . I'll do it this weekend. And the last time I drove by, they had restored the signs on gas pumps and things to Amoco. It does give me a feeling of solidarity with the past.

 

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now when I see something I want to shoot I stop and shoot it it at all possible. I can’t really you how many time I’ve said I’ll come back and shoot that place and when I return it was gone. Once they’re gone they’re gone forever.

 

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Forgot about these.

 

[Vince Lupo]

In all the many times I've been out West I think this is the only gas station-related shot I've ever done. And I'm not even sure that there was a gas station ever here.


Tremontina by Vince Lupo, on Flickr