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Author: Tim Russell Publisher: ISBN: 9781610603867 Category : Antiques & Collectibles Languages : en Pages : 214
Book Description
In this car culture of ours, what could be more American than the gas station, from the roadside pit stop in the middle of nowhere to the spit-and-polish, full service city shop? This brightly illustrated history of service stations runs the gamut from East to West, North to South, spotlighting the culture and lore of the gas-pumping garage that has kept the United States moving for a century. Whether it's the last-chance Texaco or the Sinclair dinosaur winking in the distance, the beckoning Shell, or the winged Mobil horse, it's here in all its small-town glory of compact architecture, inspired promotions, art deco pumps, and endless views of the American horizon. Author Tim Russell, one of the world's foremost collectors and historians of Petroliana, rolls out the ribbon of highway that takes us to all of those way stations of Americas motoring past.
Author: Tim Russell Publisher: ISBN: 9781610603867 Category : Antiques & Collectibles Languages : en Pages : 214
Book Description
In this car culture of ours, what could be more American than the gas station, from the roadside pit stop in the middle of nowhere to the spit-and-polish, full service city shop? This brightly illustrated history of service stations runs the gamut from East to West, North to South, spotlighting the culture and lore of the gas-pumping garage that has kept the United States moving for a century. Whether it's the last-chance Texaco or the Sinclair dinosaur winking in the distance, the beckoning Shell, or the winged Mobil horse, it's here in all its small-town glory of compact architecture, inspired promotions, art deco pumps, and endless views of the American horizon. Author Tim Russell, one of the world's foremost collectors and historians of Petroliana, rolls out the ribbon of highway that takes us to all of those way stations of Americas motoring past.
Author: Tim Steil Publisher: ISBN: 9781610606295 Category : Service stations Languages : en Pages : 100
Book Description
Cool and dark, filling stations invariably smelled of grease and strong coffee. An attendant whose name was embroidered on a patch above his shirt pocket greeted motorists who pulled up to 6the pumps barking the classic line, "Fill 'er up!" Around back, the restrooms were clean - but not too clean - and somewhere near the door was a soda machine full of glass bottles
Author: John A. Jakle Publisher: JHU Press ISBN: 9780801869198 Category : Architecture Languages : en Pages : 572
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"The first architect-designed gas station - a Pittsburgh Gulf station in 1913 - was also the first to offer free road maps; the familiar Shell name and logo date from 1907, when a British mother-of-pearl importer expanded its line to include the newly discovered oil of the Dutch East Indies; the first enclosed gas stations were built only after the first enclosed cars made motoring a year-round activity - and operating a service station was no longer a "seasonal" job; the system of "octane" rating was introduced by Sun Oil as a marketing gimmick (74 for premium in 1931)." "As the number of "true" gas stations continues its steady decline - from 239,000 in 1969 to fewer than 100,000 today - the words and images of this book bear witness to an economic and cultural phenomenon that was perhaps more uniquely American than any other of this century."--Jacket.
Author: Marcello Minale Publisher: Booth-Clibborn ISBN: Category : Architecture Languages : en Pages : 264
Book Description
In the new millennium, will the architecture & design of today's filling stations become as talked about as those landmarks of other ages -- the great power stations, the deco cinemas from the golden age of film or the warehouses of our glorious manufacturing past?
Author: Tim Russell
Author: Tim Russell
Author: Tim Steil
Author: John A. Jakle
Author: Edward Ruscha
Author: Marcello Minale
Author: Great Britain. Health and Safety Executive
Author: Association for Petroleum and Explosives Administration
Author: J. R. E. Sedgwick
Author: J. R. E. Sedgwick
Author: John Reginald Edward Sedgwick