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1940's gas stations

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1940's gas stations

Post by Vaquero » Sun Feb 19, 2023 8:02 am

Monte Walsh "You have No idea how little I care". :lol:

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Re: 1940's gas stations

Post by BigAl52 » Sun Feb 19, 2023 9:33 am

Pretty cool Randy. It reminded me of a song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBh-m1yTZS0
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Re: 1940's gas stations

Post by markiver54 » Sun Feb 19, 2023 10:31 am

Vaquero wrote:
Sun Feb 19, 2023 8:02 am
Pretty cool, I thought.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H23n35FbJLs

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Post by Vaquero » Sun Feb 19, 2023 10:44 am

Great song Al.

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Re: 1940's gas stations

Post by fortyshooter » Sun Feb 19, 2023 8:35 pm

All great times back then living at a slower pace.

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Post by Rifletom » Sun Feb 19, 2023 10:03 pm

Simpler, more innocent times then. Good song Al.

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Post by dave77 » Mon Feb 20, 2023 12:32 am

There's a local guy who's restored an old style gas station down on our main street, he also owns the old machine shop to the left. Neither are open to the public but I have a friend who was once in the machine shop and he said it's filled with his toys. I would think he has pretty a good security set-up, just the 4 gas pumps are worth several thousand dollars. Note the old phone booth at the far right.

Not enough detail in the second photo to really see it but there's photo's on the inside of the bay windows to represent what's inside, the one on the left shows an old car up on a lift.

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Re: 1940's gas stations

Post by Vaquero » Mon Feb 20, 2023 7:57 am

Now that's pretty cool Dave.

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Re: 1940's gas stations

Post by fortyshooter » Mon Feb 20, 2023 8:45 am

Nothing like an old machine shop to dig around in! :D

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