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12-31-2012, 01:08 AM | #1 |
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Old gas station pix
This great collection was posted over on the early V8 site.
http://hipspics.freewebspace.com/gas/gas.html Last edited by Craig Lewis; 12-31-2012 at 01:16 AM. |
12-31-2012, 09:05 AM | #2 |
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WOW notice Ethenol Gas in the one Pic, thought it was something recent. Wonder if they gave up on it for the same reasons we hate it now!
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12-31-2012, 10:04 AM | #3 |
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Thanks Craig for the Link. The picture of the parking ramp, how did they get the cars parked like this? Maybe elevator?
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12-31-2012, 01:03 PM | #4 |
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Thanks for posting!! (oh - and same question about the parking structure - I've often thought that something like that would be handy in urban areas; looks like people thought of that decades ago)
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12-31-2012, 02:35 PM | #5 |
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Wow! I loved seeing those photos of old service stations. Brought back some terrific memories. I enjoyed trying to identify all those autos. I think I got most of them.
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12-31-2012, 03:13 PM | #6 |
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12-31-2012, 03:59 PM | #8 |
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I believe Ethyl was higher octane gas. Not ethynol.
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12-31-2012, 04:23 PM | #9 |
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Remember Gulf No-Knox? Another type of Ethyl. Ethyl was a lead additive.
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12-31-2012, 05:42 PM | #10 |
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"Ethyl" was a trademarked name for one refinery's leaded gasoline blend. ( Sorry, don't remember whose TM it was.)
The name came from the anti-knock additive tetra-ethyl lead, developed by Charles F. Kettering and his team in the early 1920's. While grain-based alcohols are "ethyl alchohols", they are not the same "ethyl" as "Ethyl" when it comes to gasolines of the Twenties - Fifties. |
12-31-2012, 11:26 PM | #11 |
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Thanks for the posting Craig, Very enjoyable viewing! That one close-up photo of the '34 Ford taken about 1935 is one of the very few period photo's I've seen with white walls on his car. Clean ones at that!---Pete.
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12-31-2012, 11:59 PM | #12 |
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Thanks for the link. Really enjoyed it. If we could only go back in time.......!
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01-01-2013, 07:50 AM | #13 |
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Re: Old gas station pix
Here are a few that are more from the 20's-40's era.
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Ethyl, I remember her. Quite a gal. She burned hot.
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01-01-2013, 07:55 AM | #15 |
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And a few more.
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01-01-2013, 08:28 AM | #16 |
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Thanks for all the pictures... does anyone reprint them? I have a few and would like to add to my wall...
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01-01-2013, 09:46 AM | #17 |
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Here's what one looks like today on US30 near Columbus IN;
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01-01-2013, 11:54 AM | #18 |
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The sign on the building in post 13 photo 10 goes to show we don't learn.
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01-01-2013, 12:39 PM | #19 |
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Saw a sighn for Seiberling tires. Don't think they exist anymore and I think they morphed into GoodYear. I remember the Jingle: "be safe be sure with Seiberling, the finest tires you can by".
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