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AutoPuzzles Today => Features, Stories and Photos => Featured Imagery => Topic started by: Otto Puzzell on August 25, 2012, 08:42:02 AM
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Workin' in the fillin' station - too many tasks. Wipe the windows - check the tires - check the oil - dollar gas!
Ol' Chuck got what he wanted, I guess, as that kind of service is mostly a memory, or an image in a movie. But for the first three-quarter centuries of the automobile's history, 'full service' meant just that. A Dollar gas would get you pretty far, and you'd be looking at the open road through a crystal-clear windshield, to boot.
In this thread I've begun a collection of photos of various cars getting serviced, although some are far from a traditional filling station setting.
Please, add some of your own. :)
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A few more.
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Some more:
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Batch #2:
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service_ (01).jpg is my favorite so far :)
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More
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and, plus
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A white-collar job:
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From glamourless days:
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Fine architecture:
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Nice ones!
A few more...
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Two nice ones:
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More gas
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...and more...
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One more gas station, then Dick says bye-bye
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This is not a photo but a painting, but it may have its place here. More info about the painter, Alain Bertrand, in the "Diners and drive-ins" topic where I will be posting some others.
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Wow - that's nice!
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Plain fill 'er up.
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Absolutely! :thumbsup:
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Next installment
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Beat this one...
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Not a period photo, but too nice to set aside.
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A surprising one ;D
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I hope these dogs can read...
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Judging by the dogs she must be Cruella die Sel :lmao:
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Another dog
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Curbside service:
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Filling it up gain
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Washington D.C. 1926
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And action!
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More service
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A nice one:
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:thumbsup:
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Another assortment
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Another one:
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How good that there were cornerstones!
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Idyllic:
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Three great ones in-a-row. :thumbsup:
Another grab-bag:
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One more:
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A quite special service station:
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Another pair:
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Service with a smile
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A very special one (BTW, the building still exists in a modified and neglected state):
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Airplane fuel supply at Hanover airport:
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Remember to keep your eyes on the job at hand ;)
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Off duty, I guess.
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A votre service!
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Thanks, Ray and Wendax!
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Germany, winter 1942:
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A small batch
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Another one from darker times:
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Haven't stopped for gas in quite a while.
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The friendly service team is waiting for you:
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Gas stations in Nyköping Sweden. Captions are below the photos.
Bill
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Brazilian art deco gas station year unknown but early.
Bill
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Have fun, buy Dynamin!
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I've been using my Frequent Flyer Pass again lately. Odds and Sods from Far Flung Corners.
Bill
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A Dennis Hopper photo
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Another look at Miss Frances Heisler, gas attendant at an Atlantic White Flash service station, Philadelphia 1943. See reply#61.
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Strax:
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Waiting
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Is that the right stuff?
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The apprentice:
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When Super ain't good enough:
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No giant chicken?
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Maximum service employees per liter:
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Self service
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Ten years? Ten pics
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Service for the Champion:
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Very nice - thanks for keeping this thread alive.
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Caring for car and driver:
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from Italy
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Special service for a Russian Moskvitch at a GDR service station:
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another from Italy:
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This futuristic and unique colonial Fiat gas and service station can still be found today in... - Asmara, Eritrea!
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today:
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Italy:
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from Udine my town:
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A very early pre-war Reichsautobahn service station:
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another from Italy:
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Agip:
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Ferrari and Mercedes:
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more Agip
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Put a tiger in your engine!
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Lambo
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Volvo:
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maybe Tirol:
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probably one of the first service station in Milan
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Lambo
That looks like England..
maybe Tirol:
You could be right judging by what the lady is wearing! I've never seen anyone walking around dressed like that anywhere else! Or even in Tyrol for that matter...
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Croatia:
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not Lada!
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more Agip
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Aral
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wow!
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more Agip
That is the Agip gas station in Milan that Lapo Elkann bought and transformed into a restaurant.
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Esso:
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not really a work suit :)
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from an old Italian magazine:
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Supercortemaggiore in Africa
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Have your tire pressure checked:
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1960
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Jugoslavia
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Continental Racing Service (a German tyre factory) on Borgward B 2000 D, built by Kässbohrer in 1953.
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And this is how it looks 40 years later. Mercedes 1850 S from 1993 as a racing service vehicle for truck races.
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Nederland:
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Fiat 1300/1500
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Agip
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Texaco
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Shell in Italy and Nederland