Old gas stations

[BobHufford]

I've always liked those tiger tails they used to give out.

 

[Fading Fast]

I've always liked those tiger tails they used to give out.

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Also, great illustration of the tiger. He's a handsome looking fella. Sometimes, the athropomorphized animals look creepy - that tiger looks exactly like the tiger you want making your gasoline. Heck, he's the tiger you want to have a beer and watch a baseball game with.

 

[Ghostsoldier]

Or eat Frosted Flakes with. [emoji846]

Rob

 

[3fingers]

Rob

There's our favorite wagon again.
I've seen it in so many different pictures I've decided it must have belonged to the photographer.

 

[LizzieMaine]

A life-size fiberglass Esso Tiger had a second life as the mascot of our local high school -- mounted right up on the front of the building. Until the high school merged with a school in the next town and gave up the Tigers name in favor of the bland and joyless "Mariners."

The Tiger was therefore brought down from his perch, and laid out in a coffin, given a full funeral service, and ceremonially laid to rest out behind the football field. There wasn't a dry eye in town.

 

[Ghostsoldier]

Various.

Rob

 

[3fingers]

I'd never heard of Jenney before. I got all Googly and found it's a New England brand, started in Boston by a guy named Stephen Jenny selling coal, kerosene and whale oil. Looks like he did alright for himself.

 

[LizzieMaine]

Yep, Jenney was a big deal here up until the 1960s or so. Cities Service bought them out and their stations eventually all became Citgos.

 

[Ghostsoldier]

Various.

Rob

 

[Ghostsoldier]

Better late than never.

Rob

 

[LizzieMaine]

Someone spent the better part of the day wrapping that tire in foil. You know how many chocolate coins he had to eat to do that?

 

[Ghostsoldier]

Various.

Rob

 

[Fading Fast]

Various.

What, no dino?

 

[3fingers]

Pennant flags need to make a comeback.

 

[BobHufford]

Linden, Missouri. Mid-1930s. You can get your Tourist Supplies here as well.

 

[Frunobulax]

Like... Bryl Cream and a tube of Maclean's.

 

[Ghostsoldier]

Working stiffs.

Rob

 

[tonyb]

Pennant flags need to make a comeback.

Those things were banned by local ordinance in a burg where I once resided.

I saw that mostly as a matter of social and economic class. The strings of brightly colored pennants had most commonly festooned used car lots and discount appliance stores and the like. You know, the declasse establishments that dragged down the image the city “leaders” would have preferred to project.

That and similar efforts worked, alas. Real estate in the city got too expensive for those sorts of uses (and the sorts of people who patronized such businesses).

 

[BobHufford]

Couldn't find the "new" gas station thread. Apparently BP is bringing back Amoco in select cities. That was "our brand" growing up (well ... "Standard" anyway).

 

[Frunobulax]

I won't be holding my breath for any SOHIO stations to come back, though.

Worthington, OH, 1939.