Vintage gas station Pictures

I could use one of these converted cars today

 

Trucking strike causes gas shortage in Detroit in 1946

 

even the Police have to fill up

 

I'm still trying to figure out how they got a railroad tank car to this gas station.

 

The army had nothing better to do than to render strikes vain, between WWII and the conflict in Korea. It must have been them who hauled the railroad tanks to their destinations

 

There is a lot going on in that picture, a street light being worked on from a lift truck to the right, and as you said the rail tanker delivering fuel, I think that is Michigan Ave on the border of Detroit & Dearborn as I think I know were the Firehouse is across the street in the picture. I am not sure if there is a railroad side track there or not.

 

Opening day of Pepper's Gas Station in Kentucky, I like the old trolley as the office

 

That would be another scene to model in HO scale, with the rolling hills, the Coca-Cola billboard, the trolley...I'd be willing to bet there's a set of Burma-Shave signs within a few miles of this place.

 

How about a couple of Vintage 24 hour service stations

 

A log Cabin gas station in Pontiac IL, near the eastern side of route 66, but this station was there before there was a Rt 66

 

Love everything about these photos! Thanks for sharing.