Vintage gas station Pictures

Check out the spare tire cover.



Today’s image contains a view of Tom’s Burlington Garage located near Linton Park, which is northwest and across the Willamette river from Portland, Oregon. The signage indicates that Tom ran a general service garage and sold Union Gasoline. Apparently, he is posing for the photo with a full-sized roadster which is the subject of interest in this post.

The mystery automobile is circa 1925 to ’27 and appears to be a couple of years old at the time. The milk can in the rumble seat compartment may indicate that the car was owned by a local farmer.

The photograph courtesy of Vintage Portland was found via Vintage Service Station History.

 

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So now we're getting 'IMG' boxes? I suppose it's a step in the right direction.

 

Dad-gone it!
This is starting to chap my hide. I've been hesitant to post anything picture related since we've been having the issues with the red X. I hoped we were beyond all of that, but I guess not. The photo was there when I made the post this morning, but now it's gone...

lets try it this way

 

Though that car's a roadster, a lot of people back then ended up having small amounts of livestock during the Great Depression, and so they used their regular cars to haul things. Interestingly, the spare tire cover advertises a Portland, OR moving company.

 

I think it's actually an earth moving company, as in excavation.
I noticed that Alaska is the same color as the continental states, so I assume the photo was taken after Alaska became a state.
But then that would put this photo at 1959 or later.

 

Does that mean that one could drive around in Alaska without license plates, in 1958?

 

Alaska still would've been included, whether a territory or state, but what's telling is that even by 1959, that vehicle would not have been used for hauling milk in that fashion, as the SP&S Railroad was doing that, or milk trucking firms at the very least, by '59. In the clutches of the Depression, a great many who were not 100% farmers would not have been served by any trucking firm, let alone the railroad, thereby necessitating driving it to the railhead or the local creamery. In Portland's case, there were several creameries struggling during that time, as there were all around rural areas in the U.S.

 

And the license plate for this car is out of the line of sight, covered by the spare tire. It would be below the one tail light on that left side.

 

If he casually drove around with a covered plate, it must have been during the Depression, since cops would have not been getting properly paid to keep an eye on things

 

Oh, I didn't mean it was 'covered;' what I meant was that the plate was 'blocked from the camera's view.'