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- Details, Details
- What's that building to the left of the tower?
- Coal Barges
- Bromo-Seltzer
- Inner harbor
- The Basin
- What a headache!
- Giant stepladder?
- Baldwin 62303
- Baldwin VO-1000
- Cold
- No expense spared
- Tough Guys
- Lost in Toyland
- And without gloves
- If I were a blindfolded time traveler
- Smoke Consumer Also Cooks
- Oh that stove!
- Possibly still there?
- What?!?
- $100 Reward
- Freeze Frame
- Texas Flyer wanted
- Just a Year Too Soon
- WWII -- Replacing men with women at the railroad crossing.
- Yes, Icing
- You kids drive me nuts!
- NOT An Easy Job
- I wonder
- Just add window boxes
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American Gas: 1935
June 1935. "Filling station. Reedsville, Preston County, West Virginia." Last seen here. 8x10 nitrate negative by Walker Evans for the U.S. Resettlement Administration. View full size.
Check that erl fur ya?
Oil rag, usually carried in a back pocket, but this one’s a little too far gone for that.
Before ol' Mr. Gibson bought it
Here's another view of Gibson Motor Co., along with a pic of the same building in a previous life, as Central Garage. After a virtual tour of Reedsville I can't seem to locate any structures that appear to be similar, so it seems you've gotta go to the Citgo to gas up now.
In a huff
The fellow in the middle is a bit peckish with his benchmates today. He wore his brand new, mail-order toupee for the first time and nobody mentioned it.
Two Signs!
They want you to know they take cash only. (Must have had a problem with credit cards in the past.)
[You missed a sign! - Dave]
Oh those signs and gas globes.
There is just a large fortune there today. I sure hope they were salvaged and saved. Beautiful picture of Americana.
Three Faces of Ethyl
A fine trio of so-called "clockface" pumps, an interim step between the earlier, archaic "visible" dispensers, and the modern "computer" models that display both quantity and price.
The mechanical equivalent of the traditional fish-to-caveman-to-3 piece suit progression.
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