Photos of Vintage Auto Dealerships, Repair Shops, and Gas Stations

[Big_John]

Looks to be a parking lot now.

Caption accompanying the picture:
"Gas station near a small store with signs for Coca-Cola, groceries, hot lunch, Budweiser, cigars, dance every Monday night. Bathhouse in background. The St. Lucie Auto Camp was located on Dixie Highway across from MLK Blvd. Opened in 1924, its name was changed in 1936 to Stuart Auto Camp. Auto camps offered rental cottages with separate facilities for showers, bathrooms, and laundry, as well as a filling station and dance hall."

 

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Lots of signage on this one. Boston, Mass. It must have been near the tunnel.

 

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Back when there were attendants that helped kids do things like blow up a football.

 

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Captioned
"Clarence McCracken and his son standing in front of their home and Gas Station at the west end of Old Mannford, Okla. 1941."

 

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US 68, Mercer County, Kentucky

 

[Big_John]

This one might have been posted here before, but "oh well" if it has. I remember when it wasn't uncommon to see a clock outside a store or on a sign, so these pics always catch my eye.

 

[Big_John]

I think everyone will recognize these folks.

990 Vine St.
Los Angeles, CA

Now it's a body shop.

 

[Big_John]

Billy Carter

 

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"Fire in the Rouge Plant's B building on December 15, 1948. TOP: Workmen evaluate the damage caused by the B building fire. BOTTOM: Damage to the Mercury assembly line in B building resulting from the 1948 fire."

 

[Big_John]

Bellefontaine, OH.

 

[amazinblue82]

Elmhurst Motors, 183 N. York Street, Elmhurst, IL. Here circa 1960.

Art Deco-ish brickwork, ordinary industrial lines, built 1929, purpose built as a Ford dealer. 20K sq. ft.,. form factor (bricked up windows) would give it away as either a dealership circa 1930 or a factory/

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Still there neaerly a century later, subdivided, multi-tenant over the 60 years since Elmhurst moved out in about 1965. Beautiful facade intact.

 

[Big_John]

Calhoun, Ga

1928

 

[amazinblue82]

Calhoun, Ga

209 S.Wall Street, Calhoun, GA

sources: 209 On Wall Street | Gordon County Calhoun, GA, [Photograph of interior of Fox Motor Company, Calhoun, Gordon County, Georgia, 1929] - Digital Library of Georgia

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2024 .. hanging in there. repurposed and well maintained, at nearly 100 years old.

 

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Portland, ME