Photos of Vintage Auto Dealerships, Repair Shops, and Gas Stations
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!979 Chicago. The station is closed due to a gas hauler strike.
I remember the "1/2 sale price" on some pumps when they started charging over a dollar a gallon and a lot of the pumps could only read out in cents.
I remember the "1/2 sale price" on some pumps when they started charging over a dollar a gallon and a lot of the pumps could only read out in cents.
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Franklin, TN 1940. Mother and son Mollie and Newt McMillan run the store.
Thinking about this, it shows how stores put gas pumps in to sell with their small stores. No service, just gas. That morphed into gas stations with service and then morphed back into gas stations/convenience stores with no service.
My other observation is who names their kid "Newt"?
Thinking about this, it shows how stores put gas pumps in to sell with their small stores. No service, just gas. That morphed into gas stations with service and then morphed back into gas stations/convenience stores with no service.
My other observation is who names their kid "Newt"?
At least one Mrs. Gingrich, beside the above Mrs. McMillan.
Former Cooke Chevrolet used cars, circa 1950, 1027 main Street, Evansville, Indiana. Too much to hope for, being a USED car lot, any trace of it would be left.
There's is none as of 2025. The corner building may/may not have been a dealer building, vs. being used as a "bill board" for the dealer.
2019
2025
There's is none as of 2025. The corner building may/may not have been a dealer building, vs. being used as a "bill board" for the dealer.
2019
2025
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1948 Missouri. The Crazy Cabin Inn.
Must have had a power outage. I doubt if you can do this with pumps now.
built 1948, mid-century modern, former Strong Brothers Chevrolet, Syracuse, Nebraska.
Aside from climate (plus, I am running out of retirement time for this idea to make sense - meaning I will liquidate the fleet before I can make economic sense of this boondoggle), and judging by apparent industrial zoning of sourroundings, I would "hobby-house" the heck outta this one
Aside from climate (plus, I am running out of retirement time for this idea to make sense - meaning I will liquidate the fleet before I can make economic sense of this boondoggle), and judging by apparent industrial zoning of sourroundings, I would "hobby-house" the heck outta this one
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Former Mathis Motors, Studebaker-Packard, 7006 Black Horse Pike, Pleasantville, New Jersey.
Purpose-built for Mathis in 1926, from the days of the urban "auto palace" (huge, ornate buildings making the dealership visit an experience to spread the word .. and maybe a high-end car might get sold).
I make myself a bet with these century old joints I run across -- what the likelihood its still there, and even REMOTELY holding what it looked like when built. This one with 100 years of salt-air off the Atlantic to boot? i bet "no".
circa, 1950
2021, still there but has seen better days. So has the WHOLE neighborhood it would appear.
Nothing here for a "penniless" private citizen like me on the hobby house front (i.e. this needs a commerical real estate investment/cash flow return profile well beyond most private individuals' means/time horizons) but 100 years later, and likely after multiple, alternative usages, its held up pretty good it seems.
Purpose-built for Mathis in 1926, from the days of the urban "auto palace" (huge, ornate buildings making the dealership visit an experience to spread the word .. and maybe a high-end car might get sold).
I make myself a bet with these century old joints I run across -- what the likelihood its still there, and even REMOTELY holding what it looked like when built. This one with 100 years of salt-air off the Atlantic to boot? i bet "no".
circa, 1950
2021, still there but has seen better days. So has the WHOLE neighborhood it would appear.
Nothing here for a "penniless" private citizen like me on the hobby house front (i.e. this needs a commerical real estate investment/cash flow return profile well beyond most private individuals' means/time horizons) but 100 years later, and likely after multiple, alternative usages, its held up pretty good it seems.
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No architecture or signage. I just like this.
If you did this today, someone would call child protective services.
If you did this today, someone would call child protective services.
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