old gas station pics

[sreno]

That's the idea!

But, fair enough; I've added some info. Thanks!

Shawn

http://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=28505

 

[Biggie's]

First post ... Been a long time lurker on this site admiring everyone's passions. Biding my time for my garage/shop, but I saw this thread and figured I would post a link up to a new, old gas station. To be precise it is a Frank Lloyd Wright gas station that was designed but never built until now. Figure this link adheres to the OP mission of old gas stations, even if it exists in a museum.

http://www.pierce-arrow.com/frank-lloyd-wright-filling-station

The last time I was at the museum it was under construction, but looks like it is done. The first 5 or 6 images in the image rotation on the page are pictures of the station. Love the copper finish and novelty of the gravity fed pump.

 

[Morio]

My favorite in Driftwood TX

 

[Lippyp]

Funnily enough I turned the TV over the other day and happened on an episode of the **** that is "Lizard Lick Towing" and they had clearly staged someone cutting one of their trucks brake lines and the y very nearly crashed into an abandoned gas station, one of those little ones with a canopy held up by two posts out front.

Most of the interesting ones in the UK have been demolished as land is always at a premium but occasionally you do still see an old one at the side of a country road.

 

[Radio Ron w4ron]

I was attending our fall antique radio swap meet in Jamestown NC,
which is right next to Greensboro. On the way in I spotted this cool
old gas station so we stopped on the way out after the sun was a little
higher behind heavy clouds...
I've always dreamed about finding one of these and having it moved
to our property. It is really cool, looks like somebody may be trying
to redo it.

.

 

[davidh73750]

here are some ones I saw in texas back in november. I was hauling these beater 55 with a rusted frame to its new owner.

 

[Martin XJ]

Here's a couple of pics of my place back around 1926.





I already posted one on my thread but you might have missed it.

My thread http://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=271477

 

[Cummins01]

This is a station in downtown LaGrande, OR that is still in service as of June 2014. I thought it was pretty cool!

 

[Jeff Ivers]

Here are a few more to offer from my travels:

In Westville, OK



In Mena, AR



In Decatur, TX



and also in Decatur, TX




I discovered the Decatur, TX stations on the way back from the Pate Swap meet last weekend. The Texaco station in fronted by 3 Bowser 575 pumps and the station is covered in petrified wood. For an interesting history, Google "Petrified Station".

 

[StangSpace]

This is an awesome thread. I always like seeing an old gas station. Here is one close to us that I finally got around to getting some pictures in front of last month.

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[SILVERPLATE]

Thought I would post my texaco station again now that it is more complete

Very nice. What is the actual island everything is setting on made of?

Thanks, Mike

 

[lousyray]

Here's the same type of station in St Helena, California. The plan is to move it a few blocks off the main drag into a park and use it as restrooms.

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I used to work for Unocal in the mid 90's, I broke down and they replaced a starter on my car while vacationing in the valley, the 3 guys that worked there at the time were so laid back, friendly and just great people. We ended up sending them Unocal tanker truck toys that they wanted badly and couldn't get. Sad its gone.

 

[gewf631]

Image was copied off Google Street View, but here's my contribution on Route 71 in Standard Illinois (2010 population, 220)

 

[Sunbimmer]

Bump

 

[don long]

Very nice. What is the actual island everything is setting on made of?

Thanks, Mike

Hi Mike
That island is just concrete poured over my existing slab
I ran conduit in it for the electricity, and pull it off the lolly pop sign

 

[dittle fart around]

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Just came back from a road trip to Scottsdale AZ. This is in Goldfield Nev. between Death Valley and Area 51.

 

[T_R]

I worked at this station in high school in the 80's in Somerville NJ. It was an Exxon then, it was originally an Esso. The pumps came out in the early 90's and it closed soon after and has been empty since. I think it was postwar, but I'm not sure exactly. There used to be an old chicken coop to the right that parts and tires were stored in. It looks like it's still in good enough shape to open again.

From google street view-

 

[T_R]

This is near me in Camden Maine. This is still an operating Irving station and repair shop. It's all original inside and out. Really neat place, I wouldn't mind having it.

 

[dittle fart around]

Coming back from Scottsdale, we are somewhere, could be southern Utah. We slow down into this little town maybe half a dozen small abandoned commercial buildings. Didn't see this at first.

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Note the Spanish influence on the tile around the roof edges. Pillars with tile insets.

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This is the street side. It's been abandoned for some time judging from the trees.

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It's a one bay garage. With the metal framed windows down the side and rapping around the back. Lots of light, I would love to work there.

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This is the office, with storage room in the back.

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From the left, you've got the office door the man door into the garage and what was probably a glass paneled roll up door.

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I could live here, if I could only remember where it's located.

 

[Sunbimmer]

^^^^ Beautiful place

 

[slik560]

Looks like "Radiator Springs"

As far as the location, your digital photos might have some embedded location or GPS info

 

[MilwaukeeFish]

^That looks to be an old Sinclair station.

 

[dittle fart around]

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It's about time to move this thread up the list a bit.
Found this photo on Abandoned in Virgina. Thanks phartman for the link.

 

[tonkadave]

Springfield Pa.

 

[dittle fart around]

What a sweet ambulance. This picture says so much. What's with all the kids? The ambulance has flags on the front. Must be a parade or a scene from Children of the Corn.

 

[Jarhead0408]

That's a neat coincidence. I just took a picture of a similar ambulance today. The only thing different was the color, orange.

 

[Matstock4]

Bump!

Time to revive an old thread with some new pics and memories!

Sent from my XT1650 using Tapatalk

 

[turbowoodworker]

Bumping an old thread and showing off my newly finished visible pump. Build thread here:

https://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=413163

 

[BajaScout]

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It's about time to move this thread up the list a bit.
Found this photo on Abandoned in Virgina. Thanks phartman for the link.

Another one from Abandoned in Virginia

 

[2taol]

great thread,

Here is one I took about 10 years ago, it was in a town in County
Mayo on the west coast of Ireland, Ballinrobe. This is all boarded
up and pumps removed now afaik.

 

[Terranova]

I love that there are 5 years between post #266 and #268!!! Great thread.

 

[dittle fart around]

"Old gas stations" is a popular search on pinterest.




This is on my page. A real cool waste of time. I don't do this enough.

 

[ambenz]

BUMP.....

 

[don long]

I just noticed that the Sinclair station posted above is the same one I designed the station in my back yard after

Tha pic above



My Sinclair station

 

[four.cycle]

I may have posted these before here somewhere. Not sure. Apologies for any duplicates.

AA Auto Parts - 3802 Pacific Avenue, Tacoma, Washington

 

[four.cycle]

AA Auto Parts - 3802 Pacific Avenue, Tacoma, Washington

Not sure when the old man had the gas pumps pulled out.

 

[Big Dad]

My little town has 3 , all repurposed for something else I'll take some pics

 

[ambenz]

AA Auto Parts - 3802 Pacific Avenue, Tacoma, Washington

Not sure when the old man had the gas pumps pulled out.

Look at all those hubcaps! They sure dressed up a steel wheel!

We had a few "Hubcaps Only" stores and I can't imagine where they got them all, but it was quite the business.
My father said the guy would go out at night and steal hubcaps. My Dad got so paranoid he bought anti theft cables for the caps on the Buick.....only to have his antenna stolen! *Sigh*




My brother was a teenager at the time and was driving the 57 Buick and I think he made a few enemies because that same year, the car got torched in the back empty lot where people on the block used to park and where we played softball.
A lot of hooligans back then too but never with guns and stuff like today. Today, they'll just Jack your car at gunpoint!
Inexpensive machined mags put the Hubcap man out of business!

 

[ambenz]

I believe this was taken in Stockton, Illinois...one horse town, in far NW Illinois.

 

[four.cycle]

"...I can't imagine where they got them all..."

In my father's photo albums, there were pictures from his "hub cap trips", taken in the 1940s and 1950s. He pulled a small open trailer down to Mexico and bought hubcaps from the locals.
Polishing the hubcaps was one of my first jobs.