Vintage gas station Pictures

They love to watch clips of those on youtube. I think the only movies they have seen all of the way through are the Smokey and the Bandit films.

 

This must be in a small farming town, never seen a Pontiac IH Gas station Combination

 

It must make for some interesting parts swapping, once either Pontiac or International Harvester parts inventories get low

 

Great shot of a famous car.

'62 409/409.

 

This one has seen better days,

1959 Roseburg, OR
A building fire ignited a truck parked on an adjacent street carrying 2 tons of dynamite and 4-1/2 tons of ammonium nitrate. The blast damaged 8 city blocks and created a 52 foot crater, 12 feet deep.

Among the damage was this Gas Station

 

I still Like this shot of a Fokker F-32 very unsuccessful 4 engine airliner, but a great awning for a service station.

 

They must also sell Crosleys at that Gulf service station.

 

And accepting Green Stamps as partial payment

What a strange cargo combination. I'm surprised that there weren't regulations regarding loading explosives onto commercial vehicles. When you set fire to dynamite, it won't explode. Instead, it'll just burn. If I'm not mistaken, ammonium nitrate is used in fertilizer and also an ingredient for preparing explosives. Isn't it the stuff Timothy McVeigh used for blowing down that federal building back then?

 

Yes. ANFO (Ammonium Nitrate-fuel oil) is a preferred blasting material for quarries, pit mines and general earthmoving, when the blasting holes are vertical, and dynamite is preferred for angled and horizontal holes. Back then, there wasn't much in the way of highway laws governing explosives transport, so it does not surprise me both were on one truck.

 

I wonder how many of these accidents needed to happen, to get the government to legislate on the matter. What happens when ammonium nitrate fuel oil catches fire? Will it also just burn? Unlike dynamite, if I recall correctly, ammonium nitrate doesen't need a detonator. It's simply set off, through exposure to a catylist

 

If uncased, ANFO burns also, but far more rapidly than dynamite or mine gel. There was an incident sometime back in the mid-to-late '80s, where someone attempted to blow up a pickup truck with several barrels of homemade ANFO that thankfully did not actually explode. Presumably, the mixture was wrong, so it just sat and burned. Very lucky at that time.