History Images of vintage gas stations ~ pre 65

What's a "de-chopped" car?

 

I'm having problems posting the two photos in this newspaper article:http://history.farmlib.org/localhist/sendimage.cgi?type=news&id=5328&image=006500290100101.png though it is a safe link to a public library newspaper archive in Farmington Michigan.

Backstory, this was my late uncle's gas station. Two trucks collided sending this gravel train through the building. He and the guy who worked for him survived, uncle had a broken leg.

 

@shovelheadrider :

 

Sundsvall, Sweden 1952. The building and those old signs are gorgeous!

 

My neighbor and friend getting ready to head out to Detroit Dragway in his 64 Falcon bitd....Michigan Avenue, Dearborn, Mi..

 

This old building had its facade removed recently and shows it was a Mobil Station way back. Hard to see, but it also says Lubrication and Oil under the Mobilgas letters. It's at the Flemington Circle (Flemington, NJ) where 31 and 202 meet.

 

Photos need to be '65 or older. JW

 

You guys need to start a new abandoned pre-65’ buildings thread.
Or an abandoned Route-66 type thread also. All that automotive history is extremely interesting. Old pics are cool, but So are abandoned ones.
Especially when you compare a side to side photo of it in its heyday and how it looks now.
Just My opinion.
-Rick

 

^^^^That overpriced Texaco across the street is a ghost town! They are losing the war!

 

Fried Chicken on the front seat she's sittin' in my lap
We're wipin' our fingers on a Texaco roadmap


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Here's another cold one but only fake snow

 

Close enough for me in August!! Lol

I’ll head on in and grab a couple of balsa wood rubber band planes and a new pocket knife...or maybe a new flashlight. That’s what my local Sunoco carried. It’s a CVS now...

Randy


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Probably the same as "unchopped".

 

Photos are from the Minnesota Historical Society collection

 

Photos to be before 1965...........thats what ''Pre'65'' means. JW

 

I thought that it might mean been chopped and returned to normal height.

 

It isn't that we are offended, its just that this thread exists to show stations as they were back then. There are other threads for modern pics.

 

"Way Back Story" My Grandad owned a"Flying A" station,so that was first brand I liked,the man across the street from my house owned a Gulf,his kid an I played together,so Gulf #2,
I posted earlier post #11 ,a Gulf that is still around near my home an looks the same as it did in the 1930s,but another brand now..
For a number of years every summer end of 40s an early 50s,Dad would take us all from Miami Fl. to mid state NY,his Dad,along with brothers n Dad could build homes tell it started to get cold an we ran back to Miami, was a 3 day trip each way. And why between first grade and 6th,I was in 12 schools* but that's another story.
Dad kind of liked Pure Gas,so my Sis an I, had to look out for the high point roof of blue an white,used as design on most PURE Gas then. Most looked a lot like this !

 

WTH is this transparent gold mesh thing with a wire to it draped across the hood?