Images vintage gas station and truck from the movie "Hoover"
Showing posts with label pre 1930's gas station. Show all posts
Showing posts with label pre 1930's gas station. Show all posts
Wednesday, 11 April 2012
Sunday, 30 October 2011
Pre-1940 gas stations in the US
Found on http://zona-rapida.blogspot.com/2011/10/gasolinera-de-olaberria-y-otras.html who wanted the photo credits to go to the source he got them from, http://www.agilitynut.com/roadside.html
Wednesday, 24 August 2011
1920's and 30's color photos
Experimental planes on Wright Field in Dayton Ohio
these last two are photos from the 1927 Fair of the Iron Horse, the was staged by the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad to celebrate its centenary.
Tuesday, 19 July 2011
A long time ago, gas stations were owned by people, not companies, not corporations, and you could choose the gasoline that appealed to you from several pump options
Sunday, 3 July 2011
Chevron/Texaco oil company delivery (oldest to relatively newest) and famous customers
Flat out this has to be the earliest, most basic transport of gas or oil by an oil company.
1910 Mack
Above 1933
C&H Hawaiian Sugar co
Above Barney Oldfield
Amelia Earhart
this is Frank Hawks beside Texaco Northrop Gamma 2A completed in August of 1932, and purchased by Texaco on December 6, 1932.Photos from http://craunf.org/ChevronWorkersa.htm
1st service station in the world 1907, and the 1st drive in service station 1913
Above the first service station in the world 1907. John McLean of Standard Oil of California in Seattle Washington set up a pump, wood driveway, a canvas canopy and a display of oil products.
Above, The first service station in the world that was designed to be a drive in station open its pumps on 1 December 1913 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania by Gulf Oil.
This is what the typical curbside gas station was like
Images from http://craunf.org/ChevronWorkersa.htm
Friday, 10 June 2011
extremely great photos from 21 studs tumblr part 1
pre 1940's gas station, just an awesome photo, and a rare early color one
Only advertising big wheel I've ever seen, great idea!
Unusual Superbird with a 1970's funly paint job
3 ads in one dealership... Rambler, Jackson, and India, I like that slogan "No sand too deep, no hill too steep"
What are they doing with this elephant? Trying to break the car?
Rockwell was such a talented artist and pretty good at humor too
Clint Eastwood
Katherine Hepburn?
Petty on the left, Yarborough on the righ if I recall correctly, in the Woods Brothers Mercury
Jimi Hendrix
Why did Ford have more ugly Falcon models than good looking Mustangs?
http://21studs.tumblr.com/ is where all of these came from
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