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

I just got this 61 Plymouth matchbook from Zumwalt Plymouth for the ashtray for my 61!
Also have this plate frame from ther 1961 Matchbook '61 Plymouth & Valiant Zumwalt Plymouth Center Santa Rosa, CA | eBay

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If there was I sent them to hamtramck registry
I grabbed half of the docs and another employee grabbed the other half. Many got thrown out when dealership closed. The other half is still around somewhere?
The top memorable cars where
66 hemi belvedere
66 hemi satilite. (I found owner for docs)
68 hemi road runner
70 440 6 GTX (I found owner for docs)
ayilar said:
@SGT FURY — any 1970 convertible C-bodies that you remember ?
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(3)!!! 70 AARs
 
I had about a dozen c body window stickers that were for 71 c bodies. They were for demonstration cars. For some reason they didn’t make it out with car? Many were for 300s. I sent them all to hamtramck registry
Back in the mid 80s I only saved the the muscle car stuff then
ayilar said:
Those are not C-bodies. Any Fury/Polara/Chrysler 'vert that year?
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Another snippet on Zumwalt and Magrini (you have to enlarge it a bit):

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Jim Rose Chrysler Plymouth Petaluma California.
This imperial sign came from there.
My daily driver in the early 80s commuter car 71 GTX came from Jim Rose CP.
A 16 screen movie theater sits there now

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"The Tramway Gas Station is a landmark former Enco service station in Palm Springs, California, United States, so named because of its location at the foot of Tramway Road, the lone road leading to the base of the Palm Springs Aerial Tramway. It was intended to be the first Palm Springs building visitors saw when approaching the city from the north via California State Route 111.

The building, with its distinctive, cantilevered, wedge-shaped canopy (referred to as a hyperbolic paraboloid on a historic marker mounted on the building), was built in 1965 and was designed by Albert Frey and Robson C. Chambers. It is considered to be a prime example of modernist architecture.

It is now operated by the Palm Springs Bureau of Tourism as the Palm Springs Visitor Center." (Wikipedia link)

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OK, not a service station or dealer, but it is such a cool picture that screams 50's.

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Frisby the Vulcanizer! Ottawa, Ontario

Sounds like a rogue relative of Mr Spock.

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I think that, of the six examples provided by @Big_John above, the first 4 show us that (while beauty is in the eye of the beholder) not all vintage gas stations and dealerships are equally attractive. Yet, even when the building itself does not look great, the signs can be cool -- cue the Frisby neon!
 
ayilar said:
I think that, of the six examples provided by @Big_John above, the first 4 show us that (while beauty is in the eye of the beholder) not all vintage gas stations and dealerships are equally attractive. Yet, even when the building itself does not look great, the signs can be cool -- cue the Frisby neon!
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What I see when I look at those pics are the gas stations that we bought our gas in back when I was a kid. Nothing fancy, just a couple pumps and maybe a service bay or two.

The signage is always good... If I had the space, I would collect old signs!
 
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