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[polara71]

I say BS to all of that. You gotta stop and ask. The above sign hung over a local dry cleaners for forty five years. I took these photos 10 years ago and wanted to buy this sign but was afraid of the price or to draw attention to it. Two years ago the sign disappeared and made way to an awning.

GO ASK IF IT IS AVAILABLE. THE WORST THEY CAN SAY IS NO AND YOU WILL NEVER SEE THEM AGAIN.

 

[polarus]

I'll be out that way sometime next week, stay tuned.

 

[polara71]

I'll be out that way sometime next week, stay tuned.

Now you're talking

 

[cm23uoc]

I knew of an illuminated glass sign in an old grocery store for years, when I finally asked weeks after closing it turned out they had already put it down and while taking it to the ground it broke. If I were a few days earlier I could have saved it probably by doing it myself, it would have been for free.
Once "stole" a sign to save it as the plot was sold and the garage building already prepared to be demolished. "Take your time and not your life" , not really fitting muscle car motto.

 

[AlleyOop2]

Cool pictures!

 

[bluefury361]

You guys don't have a prayer.
IF they are still there, they are already spoken for. Guaranteed!

I've picked a few items that obviously had been there for a long time.... Just by being the first to ask.... Or taking time to track down the property owners.
Sometimes it takes stopping and asking a few times.... Don't take no for an answer and don't down talk the item.

I passed this rare old Gilbarco clockface pump several times at a abandoned farm in North Carolina. One day I stopped and asked around at a nearby hardware store and then the local Post office.... Who knew the old lady who owned the property. They told me where she lived.... in a town ten miles away... I went, knocked on her door and told her I liked the pump and wanted to restore it. She asked if $50.00 would be to much......

 

[polara71]

excellent Will, you do have talent. You do like red, dont you

 

[bluefury361]

excellent Will, you do have talent. You do like red, dont you

Thanks Dave.
I was always under the impression that convertibles... pickups and gas pumps were suppost to be red.

 

[cm23uoc]

Is there a way they deliver the old quality gas at the prices of the day back then ?

 

[1978 NYB]

 

[polarus]

Found these old lights in an old mill in CT. that was being torn down, when I asked the foreman about saving them he told me to F_ _ _ off and get off the property! You can't save them all.(Lean your head to the left!)

 

[polara71]

But you asked and thats it ...now you know. If you dont ask, you never know

 

[bluefury361]

Nice picture Bob.

I was always under the impression that convertibles... pickups and gas pumps were suppost to be red.

All thats missing in that pic is the red convertible.....

 

[bluefury361]

But you asked and thats it ...now you know. If you dont ask, you never know

I've been run off property just for taking a picture of an old artifact.... But Daves right..... Ya gotta ask....!

 

[bluefury361]

Raybestos posters

I found these still tacked to the wall in an abandoned service center long ago.
The 60...? Falcon ranchero dates them.

 

[1978 NYB]

Nice picture Bob.

I was always under the impression that convertibles... pickups and gas pumps were suppost to be red.

All thats missing in that pic is the red convertible.....

That picture was taken near Green Bay, Wisconsin.

 

[1978 NYB]

Found these old lights in an old mill in CT. that was being torn down, when I asked the foreman about saving them he told me to F_ _ _ off and get off the property! You can't save them all.(Lean your head to the left!)View attachment 17007View attachment 17008

Too bad you couldn't save those vintage lamps.

 

[cm23uoc]

Classic simple design. There's nothing to improve form and function of these kind of lamps. Always been my favorite.

 

[polara71]

I found these still tacked to the wall in an abandoned service center long ago.
The 60...? Falcon ranchero dates them.

They hanging in the garage Will?

 

[bluefury361]

They hanging in the garage Will?

I've got them hanging in my den.......!