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Where the heck is the guy in the white uniform that comes out to fill er' up, clean my windshield, and check my oil and tires?? Where is the friendly “Were are you people headed?” You just can't get good service anymore!
Took this photograph down in town yesterday.
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very cool photo!!!!!! and yes where did all of the service go:)
you really have some great photos on here and other great items:)
Love These Old photos Of your Town packrat! Thanks For sharing them with us and the stories behind them!
This is a love/hate picture like the ones I've posted. like you said, what happened to the full service stations? In the small city I grew up near, there's a Sunoco station still in business selling gas and fixing cars, the only one I know of.
When they quit calling them " filling Stations" they went down hill.
great photos you have packrat, and i thought my home town was falling apart.
be a good building to move to a new home and recreate
I just love your photos. Beautiful. Do you live in Neptune, N.J. ??
Thank you very much BELLIN68, Manikin, junkmanjoe, beachbomb, pickingupbones, olegaclockman47, vanskyock24, PhilDavidAlexanderMorris, EJW-54 & Hedgewalker. I appreciate all the love & kind words and I am very glad you all enjoy the photographs. Photographing things like this is a hobby of mine, I save them to a flashdrive. As I take more photos, I will be sharing them, as there is a vast amount of subject matter around here.
PhilDavidAlexanderMorris, I actually have never been to N.J., I live in the vicinity of Kerrville, Texas.
hello packrat-place how are u today ?:)
BELLIN68, my friend, I am better, how have you been lately? I have been out of commission for the last week or so.
You have posted some great items, just getting started back looking at things again.
I tried your strategy this morning, I stepped out to get some fresh air, however, I didn't find anything!! May by I'll have better luck tomorrow.
It is great to be back!!!
im glad your doing great !!! and im glad youve gotten some fresh air, youll find something real soon:) im glad your doing well :)
and thankyou for looking at my posts:)
Thank you very much.
I will keep you posted!!
your welcome :)
Thank you very much BirdieZ
This is just priceless photo . Who stole the pumps along with the serviceman :-)
I rember pulling into the SOHIO station and handing the man $2.00,and geting all the gas i needed,and my windshield cleaned.That was a long time ago.
Thank you very much eye4beauty, garrybeair, BirdieZ , Manikin & garrybeair.
Lots of great memories with these old stations, they are disappearing at a very fast rate.
probably ended up like us....... lower volume/higher costs.....firmly planted/disposable relocatable.......... older reliable equipment/shiny sparkly crappy.......ect.,ect,ect,
Thank you very much mikielikesigns2 & officialfuel. I agree with you on that.