Pre-1940 gas stations in the US

outside Hannibal Missouri, photo from http://www.retrohound.com/cool-old-gas-station/

 Dassel Minnesota 1931

 Creston Iowa 1931

 Galena Kansas 1920

 Los Angeles 1938

 Weir Kansas

 Miami Florida 1941

 Belle Plaine Iowa 1917

 Sandford Iowa 1932

 Available for lease, in Portland Oregon, opened in 1939

Winston Salem North Carolina 1930
Found on http://zona-rapida.blogspot.com/2011/10/gasolinera-de-olaberria-y-otras.html who wanted the photo credits to go to the source he got them from, http://www.agilitynut.com/roadside.html

1920's and 30's color photos

 Experimental planes on Wright Field in Dayton Ohio

 these last two are photos from the 1927 Fair of the Iron Horse, the was staged by the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad to celebrate its centenary.

photos from http://www.howtobearetronaut.com/2011/05/america-1920s-30s-in-color/

A long time ago, gas stations were owned by people, not companies, not corporations, and you could choose the gasoline that appealed to you from several pump options

from  http://dieselpunk.livejournal.com/?skip=190

Chevron/Texaco oil company delivery (oldest to relatively newest) and famous customers

Flat out this has to be the earliest, most basic transport of gas or oil by an oil company.

1910 Mack


Above 1933
C&H Hawaiian Sugar co

Above Barney Oldfield
Amelia Earhart
this is Frank Hawks beside Texaco Northrop Gamma 2A completed in August of 1932, and purchased by Texaco on December 6, 1932.
Photos from http://craunf.org/ChevronWorkersa.htm

1st service station in the world 1907, and the 1st drive in service station 1913

Above the first service station in the world 1907. John McLean of Standard Oil of California in Seattle Washington set up a pump, wood driveway, a canvas canopy and a display of oil products.
Above, The first service station in the world that was designed to be a drive in station open its pumps on 1 December 1913 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania by Gulf Oil.
This is what the typical curbside gas station was like
Images from http://craunf.org/ChevronWorkersa.htm

extremely great photos from 21 studs tumblr part 1

pre 1940's gas station, just an awesome photo, and a rare early color one
Only advertising big wheel I've ever seen, great idea!
Unusual Superbird with a 1970's funly paint job


3 ads in one dealership... Rambler, Jackson, and India, I like that slogan "No sand too deep, no hill too steep"

What are they doing with this elephant? Trying to break the car?
Rockwell was such a talented artist and pretty good at humor too


Clint Eastwood

Katherine Hepburn?

Petty on the left, Yarborough on the righ if I recall correctly, in the Woods Brothers Mercury
Jimi Hendrix

Why did Ford have more ugly Falcon models than good looking Mustangs?http://21studs.tumblr.com/ is where all of these came from