History Old Gas Stations Today-Derelict or Period Restored.

About 25 miles from where I live. Have photos of some of my past rides here too but this is the only one I could dig up at the moment....

 

Great info and pics from a classic, thanks. JW

 

Exeter Missouri

 

I had lunch here today in Des Moines. It doesn't look much like an old station, but you can see were the pump island was torn out and patched.

This is what I had. Very tasty.

Gary

 

That's a heartbreaker. Such a neat building, but like you said, would be incredibly difficult to repair at this point. Maybe some of it could be salvaged but the failed roof really hurts it. I wish you could have bought it before that happened.

 

North Carolina.

 

Here is another neat one. This is in Wyandotte, Michigan. It sits on a corner lot, the building at a 45-degree angle, and the drive cuts across. Next to the building, behind the trailer in the first pic, is a lift. I grew up in the general area but never noticed this until a few years ago. No idea when it last was in operation. The pump looks '60's to me.

 

I posted a before and after picture in the gas stations-pre 65 thread. Here is the before:

 

Bump

 

Thought I add some random stations

 

This one is about 15 miles south of Denver, just off I25. It was a Sav-O-Mat self serve station.
There was a small apartment on the property, so you paid at the window. The people got to live
in the apartment as part of their pay for running the gas station. It closed about 15yrs. ago. A
couple ran it. He was an alcoholic so they used to get into some pretty loud fights. You never
knew what to expect when you went to the window to pay..part of the entertainment....
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Franklin GA

 

Lebanon KS

 

Veal GA

 

Hydro OK

 

Oxford NY. I can remember when it was a Texaco station.

 

San Miguel County NM. (Between Las Vegas & Tucumcari NM)
This is the gas station from the 1984 movie Red Dawn

 

Andes,NY

 

Was a gas station of a very small rural community, now a house. JW

 

Montana Gas...

 

One I spotted on old US rt. 11 in Va. { history ?}

 

Farmers High GA

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Bowdon GA

 

Yass, NSW, Australia