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07-16-2015, 09:01 PM | #141 |
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07-16-2015, 09:27 PM | #142 |
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I was thinking more as to those that hung on the wall inside. Most I remember ran on electricity and later, much later, on batteries. I was thinking more the wind up with a key.
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07-17-2015, 06:58 AM | #143 |
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let me complicate this a little: here in Ohio, when I was a kid, we had "Blue Laws" that made businesses close on Sunday. they were either not enforced on, or they exempted drug stores (which incidentally took advantage of it by selling everything from soup to nuts)
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07-17-2015, 10:18 AM | #145 |
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The Revere Rubber Company business card holder that arrived today is not a business card holder but rather a....paperweight, which is more understandable....I believe. Regardless, it's a nice addition.
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07-18-2015, 08:32 AM | #146 | |
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Underneath the paperweight will be a good place for on display. Cheers.............
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07-18-2015, 10:04 AM | #147 |
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07-19-2015, 01:25 PM | #148 |
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What I remember was a cigarette machine and a box of cigars inside the glass counter. Saw no advertisement for either.
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It wasn't in the same trunk but I found my old bag in another. Funny, it still held a couple of my last papers that I never sold dated Sept 1937. Grace and I divorced in 36. BTW, that little pennant and badge was my St Louis Browns Boys Brigade pin.
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07-22-2015, 11:41 AM | #151 | |
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You really had to pay attention too or you could get an earful of gas when it topped off. At the Clark station you had to beat the car to the pump and take your turn to whitewash the concrete curbing every day. |
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SILENCE is GOLDEN
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11-17-2015, 06:04 PM | #154 |
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11-17-2015, 07:13 PM | #155 |
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Welcome to the Barn....did you read the rules? Punishment for resurrecting old threads is a case of fine wine for the originator of the thread which is ....ME!!!!!
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11-17-2015, 09:24 PM | #156 |
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Free road maps of the state and the united states. Some even had maps of county roads and big cities nearby. When I was planning my escape from Idaho to California at age 13, I looked over those maps to plan my trip, me and my bicycle. I worried that I wouldn't be able to see my familiar landmark, Stack Rock, which I could see from most all of southwestern Idaho, so I eventually hopped a bus to Winnemucca and the greyhound to Oakland. Left the old Schwinn behind, never saw it again.
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11-18-2015, 09:42 AM | #157 |
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I grew up in a summer resort community and 2 summers I was gas pump attendant for a general store with postoffice. This was 1939 and 1940. Customers were local year rounders, summer folks who owned a cottage and the day tripper passing through. Our oil was dispensed in quart cars with a screw on top pouring spout, and I had to keep them filled from large drums in a shed near the store. You cranked a handle that pumped one quart to fill the bottles, then you turned it back to set for the next fill up. Every customer had his oil checked, windshield washed and gas was .18 per gallon.
In the general store the telephone was on the wall the same as our phone at home. My area did not have table top phones yet. The phone company man came about once and year and put new batteries in the phone. I made change for customers from the general store cash register and there were no automotive displays in the store. I worked 8 hours a day, 7 days a week from school closing for the summer until the day before it reopened. |
11-18-2015, 08:03 PM | #158 |
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You-hoo and Cokes in 6oz bottles, bulk oil, pump side service. if you couldn't afford new oil you could get used oil by the quart pumped out of the drum. repairing flats with hot patches or a boot if you had a blowout. Full service all around.
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11-18-2015, 09:05 PM | #159 |
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I don't know if anyone mentioned the restroom key chained to an engine block,,, LOL really I have seen 2X4s big pieces of metal with restroom blow torched into them, tire irons chained to them,,, LOL lots of funny things attached so they wouldn't walk off.
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11-19-2015, 09:35 AM | #160 |
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Where is the cigarette machine?!
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