01-06-2013, 12:13
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Remember These??
http://hipspics.freewebspace.com/gas/gas.html
Pumped a lot of gas @ .25.9,checked oil , water, checked all 4 tires and cleaned the windshield. Forgot sweeping out front floor boards.
Didn't matter if it was 1 gallon or 20.
BMT
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01-06-2013, 12:29
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I know that view behind the Cucamonga station but I'm sure the building is long gone.
Anyone from Colorado remember the Little America filling station between Colorado Springs and Denver. As a kid I was amazed! It had about 100 pumps.
How about an intersection with a different station on each corner? A merry go round gas war, each dropping the price a penny one after the other?
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01-06-2013, 12:39
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How about an intersection with a different station on each corner? A merry go round gas war, each dropping the price a penny one after the other?
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Kayenta, Arizona (pop ~5000) has 5 gas stations.
All of them are at the same intersection (2 on the SE corner).
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01-06-2013, 12:46
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Growing up my parents owned and operated a small Texaco gas station/grocery. I would pump gas and operate the cash register. It was one of those you punch in the numbers and pull the handle to calculate. Back then you could get 5 pieces of bubblegum for 1 cent.
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01-06-2013, 14:36
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Neat old photos. 
How did the Texaco station stack the vehicles on those shelves like wine bottles on a rack? (photo about 3/4 down the page)
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01-06-2013, 15:01
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Those pictures are really cool.
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01-06-2013, 15:44
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Great pics.
LOVED that Hot Rod (about half-way through) with the German Helmet air cleaner.
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01-06-2013, 17:55
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Thanks for sharing that. Gulf station at the peak of a 60's SoCal gas war, 3 grades of gas, at 9, 10, & 11 cents a gallon. 16yo & had the whole station for 12 hours by myself on Sundays, and a fleet of Kraft Foods sales cars to pull oil changes on, gettin' a piece of that action. Kept me in oil & spares for the Bultaco. Some good days.
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01-07-2013, 05:09
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Neat old photos.
How did the Texaco station stack the vehicles on those shelves like wine bottles on a rack? (photo about 3/4 down the page)
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Forklift?
Would give anything for a time machine.
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01-07-2013, 06:04
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Hydraulic stacked car parking has apparently been around for a while. I've seen some pretty neat ones overseas and in major metros.
So much to see in the photos, from station architecture to the cars and people... flashbacks of "service" (yeah, remember that).
This Pic is one of the old-school Gulf stations that is still functioning...albeit with more modern pumps...
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01-07-2013, 11:58
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How many noticed that all those photos were taken before the 70s when the government decided to start "taking care" of everyone? 
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01-07-2013, 12:00
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absolutely great, i know i was born in the wrong age. its sad because we all live in a disposable era with no respect for quality and the artistic influence you could see in the furniture, buildings and cars of a greater era then the one we live in.
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01-07-2013, 13:14
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absolutely great, i know i was born in the wrong age. its sad because we all live in a disposable era with no respect for quality and the artistic influence you could see in the furniture, buildings and cars of a greater era then the one we live in.
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Grass always looks greener...
Cars of the '50s, and '60s were pieces of crap compared to what is produced today. BTDT.
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01-07-2013, 15:00
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Grass always looks greener...
Cars of the '50s, and '60s were pieces of crap compared to what is produced today. BTDT.
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oh come on man the cars from the 50's and 60's were works of art there was style, horse power were it was needed. I do own a 2001 Ford F-350 and yea its okay but i would rather drive my 67 International scout, or my grandfathers 56 T bird or the 56 Chevy, the new cars are comfortable to busy have nothing really going for them, and like my wife most of them talk back to you (make a legal u turn now!)
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01-07-2013, 15:52
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Great photos
Great photos!
at about the 26th pic, the one of the two 6 leveled parking structures...how in the world would you navigate that?
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