Once an integral part of daily American life, the traditional full-service gas station has given way to sterile convenience stores with automated, pay-at-the-pump service. Fortunately, memories of old service stations live on in this entertaining book filled with original period color images, as well as modern color shots of surviving filling stations. Readers will witness eccentric and wacky station styles, including airplanes, teepees, windmills, petrified trees, railroad tanks cars, icebergs, and more. Author Tim Steil also examines the role of the automobile and filling station in American society, from the earliest days in the 1910s through the end of the service station era in the 1970s.
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Although this coffee table book has photos, it is the short stories about the abandoned gas stations that make the book worthwhile.
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Standard Oil, Red Oak, World War, National Archives, Red Crown, Sinclair Oil Corporation, America Inc, Art Lacey, Bill Shea, Jayson Scott, Don Stein, North Carolina, Peoria Street, West Virginia, Klamath Falls, Ray Lindholm, Tom Westbrook, United States New!
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There is a subtle semantic shift going on in America these days, and you don't need to beat the bushes for an English professor to get an example. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Standard Oil, Red Oak, World War, National Archives, Red Crown, Sinclair Oil Corporation, America Inc, Art Lacey, Bill Shea, Jayson Scott, Don Stein, North Carolina, Peoria Street, West Virginia, Klamath Falls, Ray Lindholm, Tom Westbrook, United States New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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