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Today we feature a pair of gasoline stations that opened for business in the pre-World War II days. The lead image and the enlargeable version of it (below) contain a postcard view of the Lighthouse No. 10 and filling station located in Valparaiso, IN. The facility opened for business on February 2, 1929, and offered…
Today’s lead image containing two men, possibly a father and son with a bright red Corvette was apparently taken in Texas in 1964. With the exception of a set of chromed reversed wheels, this “Vette” appears to be as it left the factory. Share with us what you know about this machine. As is the usual…
1949 was the year that Oldsmobile unveiled its sensational and-all new 303 c.i. 135 hp Rocket V-8 overhead valve high compression engine coupled with a GM “Futurematic Hydra-Matic” transmission. When installed in the newly introduced small and lightweight 88 model built on the B-body platform the result was one of the first and most potent…
Palestine, Texas was founded in 1846 by the Texas State Legislature, it is located one-hundred and twelve miles southeast of Dallas on the eastern side of the Lone Star State. The historic railroad City is the county seat of Anderson County. This photo containing parked cars on a wide street in Palestine was taken in…
Today’s four featured offbeat but interesting gasoline station photos begin with a James Blair Murdoch newspaper advertisement photograph taken on March 13, 1939, in the Milwaukee, WI metropolitan area. The backdrop in the picture is a Streamline Moderne Standard Oil Company filling station building with bold Art Deco lettering. Even though the gasoline selling for…
The 1950s was a decade of unprecedented economic growth and during that period the average American’s income grew by thirty percent. This set of images taken in Hawaii during 1958 show the result of the economic expansion which also happened there at the same time. A year later the US territory officially became the fiftieth…
George “Joie” Chitwood started his career behind the wheel in the mid-thirties racing sprint cars in the midwest. The Driver won the AAA Sprint Car Championship in 1939 and ’40 and the CRSA (Central State Racing Association based in Sacramento, CA) Championship in 1942. Chitwood also competed in the Indianapolis 500 seven times between 1940…
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