Photos of Vintage Auto Dealerships, Repair Shops, and Gas Stations

Bennett Buick, 6 Lackawanna St, Wayland, NY. Opened 1922, one-family ownership until it closed almost 100 years later (when GM wanted them outta the location/or make other changes and family said "enough")

circa 1958. A 1929 Buick on left, and a 1958 on the right. In between those years, the "modern" car design we know today emerged. just

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Circa 1950
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below, a 1940 Buick with owner's son's wife posing.
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below, 1938 technician with a Sun tester

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Below, building under construction in 1921
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Today

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Approximately 1912, Sunnyside WA. Shoe your horse, get your carburetor fixed. Such was the nascent days of the auto industry.

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Circa 1955, Chapman Pontiac, 15 E. Michigan Ave, Ypsilanti MI. Art-deco building long gone, but there is a strip of auto dealers still here on this section of Michigan Ave..

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"The Studebaker power plant burned 800 tons of coal a day, used one million gallons of water a day, for 365 days a year, to provide the electricity, steam and compressed air, to supply the assembly line. The coal and water amounts are incomprehensible! Sample street goes up and down on the left of the photo. The third photo is from 1920, when Studebaker began making their light six cars. After they came off the assembly line, they were parked here for transport. The light six was the Studebaker's first car."

Something I found interesting in the comments for this pic (I stole it from FaceBook) is that in Russia, trucks are called Studebakers like some folks refer to vacuum cleaners as "Hoovers".

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Corvairs in the Rotunda (affectionately called the Fish bowl) Chevrolet Division at Willow Run Assembly Plant, Ypsilanti, Michigan 1960
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