Fill up close up

[Dave Mellor NJ]

Protect the paint

[Thodge]

That poor guy had to try and keep an all white uniform clean while he leaned over dirty cars all day. I can’t even eat a hot dog in a white shirt.

[marty in Ohio]

Dave has the best pictures! I especially like the black bowtie. When was the last time you saw a service attendant with a bowtie? Wait - when was the last time you saw a service attendant?
Marty

[jb-ob]

I'd suspect his 'hard' job was in Southern California from the palm trees in the back ground.

Notice also the drip cloth on top of the gas tank.

Earliest pictures of auto garages, mechanics dressed in white coveralls, usually filthy enough to stand by them selves. This was pre EPA when they could use industrial strength bleach !

[nkaminar]

Any new white shirt is attractive to any kind of stain. When we used to wear ink pens in our shirt pocket, the pen was sure to leak ink on a new white shirt.

[GPierce]

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Originally Posted by marty in Ohio

Dave has the best pictures! I especially like the black bowtie. When was the last time you saw a service attendant with a bowtie? Wait - when was the last time you saw a service attendant?
Marty

I encountered one at a New Jersey gas station in 2021.

[David in San Antonio]

The ink stain in a shirt pocket gave rise to the pocket protector. Made of soft vinyl(?) it rode inside your breast pocket and contained any leaked ink or the usual stripes earned when slipping the pen into and out of place. My father had an industrial hardware store in Long Island City, Queens, near the Steinway Piano company. (Lilien Hardware. “From A Tack To A Telephone Pole” was their unintentionally salacious slogan. At least I think it was unintentional.) His daily uniform was a white shirt and short tie, with a lumber crayon and an assortment of pens, pencils, and a screw gauge card filing the pocket, with the familiar red Milwaukee power tools logo printed across the front overhanging flap of his pocket protector. Pocket protectors seem to have disappeared over the years, along with slide rules and 78 rpm records. For a while TV shows and movies used a pocket protector to signal a character was a square. Who still has a pocket protector in a desk drawer? Bonus points for a photo, especially if it has advertising on it.

[TerryO]

Originally Posted by GPierce

I encountered one at a New Jersey gas station in 2021.

LOL...On the way to New Hampshire I had to wait about 20 minutes for him to come pump my gas, but he wasn't wearing a white shirt or tie.



TOB

[5851a]

Job out of high school in 73, dishwasher bus boy. All had to wear white shirt and black bow tie. Next job Holiday gas station attendant and shelf stocker. Had to wear white Holiday shirt and carry change machine, no self-serve then. Had to check oil, police dept was next door and had to gas and check oil. They all came in at shift change time, those 440 Chryslers that had been running AC all day, the dipstick would burn your fingers.

[henry's 31]

Love that gasoline pump. Thanks for sharing!

[burner31]

I used to be a gas jockey back in the mid/late 60's, had a white uniform but no bow tie

[JayJay]

I was a pump jockey in Shell stations in high school, late 60s. We wore white shirt, dark brown trousers and a dark brown clip-on bow tie. Dark brown Ike jackets for cold weather. Station owner wore the same except it was a long tie. Quite snazzy, we were back in the day of $0.30 gasoline and green stamps. The jackets were embroidered with our names and the Shell logo. I kept mine for many years as a shop jacket.

[ModelA29]

It must be the first customer of the day.
In the late 60s I worked at a Mobil station. The boss supplied a clean blue shirt each shift. Wore my own Levis and tennis shoes.