Old gas stations

[2jakes]

Standard Oil

Fine tuning!

 

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...Fine tuning!
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If it wasn't staged (big if), you have to love a woman dressed like that who will lift up the hood and get to work when needed. I'll take a woman willing to get scruffy and not worry about her clothes every time over the "proper" woman who always looks pin-neat.

 

[2jakes]

There's no "ifs" on this lovely gal!

Demeny Pollitt, owner of Girlington Garage, Vermont.

 

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There's no "ifs" on this lovely gal!
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Demeny Pollitt, owner of Girlington Garage, Vermont.

I'm with you - she looks like a big-thumbs-up / gets-it girl.

Also, while she did dress appropriate to the work at hand*, my guess is she'd roll up whatever sleeves she was wearing if needed.


* That cap is perfect

 

[2jakes]

I'm with you - she looks like a big-thumbs-up / gets-it girl.

Also, while she did dress appropriate to the work at hand*, my guess is she'd roll up whatever sleeves she was wearing if needed.


* That cap is perfect

Roll up her sleeves"?
Vermont is 0 degrees currently with a low of minus eleven this evening!

Totally agree...there's nothing as grand as a woman who will tackle the
job instead of waiting for a man.

 

[Ghostsoldier]

Rob

 

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⇧ "Try Our Lousy Coffee" reverse psychology from Lizzie's Boys or good old-fashioned American Heartland honesty?

 

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Roll up her sleeves"?
Vermont is 0 degrees currently with a low of minus eleven this evening!

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Totally agree...there's nothing as grand as a woman who will tackle the
job instead of waiting for a man.

My handyman skills are okay, but not as good as Super Girlfriend's whose mom and dad are both handymen whizzes. In our house, it's more likely to be me waiting for SGF if something is perplexing (and obstinate to my attempts at repair).

 

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One ornery looking "face" on that car. Also, that is a lot of metal - when it has a head of steam going, you don't want to be the car that thing runs into.

Rob

This place is awesome. I assume, at the right time of year, chairs and tables show up on that deck for dining al fresco .

And for our car guys and gals, is that a (around) '49 Buick Roadmaster parked to the right?

 

[2jakes]

⇧ "Try Our Lousy Coffee" reverse psychology from Lizzie's Boys or good old-fashioned American Heartland honesty?

It's been around for ages, mostly in the small surrounding towns

 

[David Conwill]

Somehow I got unsubscribed from this thread. I think this was somewhere in New York.

 

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Somehow I got unsubscribed from this thread. I think this was somewhere in New York.

Happens when you post log cabin gas stations with only one pump!

 

[David Conwill]

Here, perhaps this will help: An idealized image of the ultimate marketer of That Good Gulf Gasoline.

 

[LizzieMaine]

Is that a filling station or a basilica? Will we get an audience with Pope Nonox the First?

 

[Ghostsoldier]

A plethora of pumps...

Rob

 

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Here, perhaps this will help: An idealized image of the ultimate marketer of That Good Gulf Gasoline.

Brother Conwill.... that "Good Gulf "gas
station you posted is heavenly.
Pay no never mind to the healots for
they Nonox what they spout!

 

[2jakes]

A cornucopia of Texacos !

 

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Here, perhaps this will help: An idealized image of the ultimate marketer of That Good Gulf Gasoline.

One, what a fantastic ad - I'm sure, if you could find it today, it's a billion dollars to buy (because everything is), but that would be a cool one to have and, two, my favorite detail is the iconic man in the suit and fedora shadowed in the foreground.

Rob

Lizzie, any details / info on what this ⇧ cool awesomeness is all about?

 

[LizzieMaine]

Lizzie, any details / info on what this ⇧ cool awesomeness is all about?

Looks like a double clockface pump that's been modified. Those are not the Veeder-Root computers that everybody knows and remembers, but rather a weird aftermarket hybrid that used the mechanism from the clockface dial to drive a wheel-based display system. This was a stopgap thing for companies that had laid in a big stock of clockface pumps when they came into vogue in the early thirties, only to have them overtaken by the Veeder-Root digital displays that took the industry by storm in 1934.

 

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⇧ Lizziepedia trumps Wikipedia once again. Good show - thank you.