Photos of Vintage Auto Dealerships, Repair Shops, and Gas Stations
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Old Man with a Hat
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Old Man with a Hat
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Old Man with a Hat
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Old Man with a Hat
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Old Man with a Hat
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Old Man with a Hat
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Old Man with a Hat
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Old Man with a Hat
1960's, Phillips 66, Fort Dodge (about 90 miles NNW of Des Moines), Iowa. May be here already, no address was found.
UPDATE: Apparently, the Cowboy has a story.
He was the "Muffler Man" Phillip's used in 1960's advertising. Made if fiberglass, by an outfit called "International Fiberglass", several copies were made, and source at link speculates NONE are left (as if 2013 date of the link).
Source did say this station above was on "Highway 20" in Fort Dodge, IA.
source: The Phillips 66 Cowboy
UPDATE: Apparently, the Cowboy has a story.
He was the "Muffler Man" Phillip's used in 1960's advertising. Made if fiberglass, by an outfit called "International Fiberglass", several copies were made, and source at link speculates NONE are left (as if 2013 date of the link).
Source did say this station above was on "Highway 20" in Fort Dodge, IA.
source: The Phillips 66 Cowboy
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i have no recollection of these figures, in any business, growing up -- let alone Phillips 66 using them.
i was old enough in mid 60's to have that be something my folks woulda made a big deal to point out.
While really not a true "Muffler Man", I'm sure if I went through the pics my parents had, there would be a pic of me standing next to this guy somewhere around 1962 or so.i have no recollection of these figures, in any business, growing up -- let alone Phillips 66 using them.
i was old enough in mid 60's to have that be something my folks woulda made a big deal to point out.
Key West 1965
Here's three things I haven't seen in many, many years... Getting the windshield washed, the hose for the bell and look at the long gas hose reaching around to the other side.
I want the Dart!
Here's three things I haven't seen in many, many years... Getting the windshield washed, the hose for the bell and look at the long gas hose reaching around to the other side.
I want the Dart!
2284 Genesee. Buffalo NY. I'm bummin' a bit.
I have seen this station when I lived in Buffalo (early 2000's). It was dressed up in "Pennzoil" (though I thought "Texaco" guys had the Red "star") garb, like the 2010 photos, but it was NOT a gas station (no pumps).
Signage back then would indicate a repair garage. Condition of building (per the photos) indicative its best days were behind it.
Dunno it's history, but looks circa 1950 streamline modern "Ice Box Form" architecture (again, more like "Texaco" vs "Pennzoil' I would guess), with original porcelain enamal cladding. I had high hopes when I looked it up today.
Now? Ain't dissin' owner(s) -- just disappointed. Siding over the porcelain enamel among other architectural indignities.
Well at least it's still there at 60+ years old -- looks to still be in the auto repair business. Tougher neighborhood (about 10 mins away from the summertime tragedy at the grocery store).
source: New York Icebox & Modern Gas Stations | RoadsideArchitecture.com
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You're right. It's a darn shame they changed it from the original styling. It still looks good in the 2010 pictures.
Oblique to the topic - forgive me @ayilar.
Only here because I have parked here. And as a lad in late 60's, went there for a theatrical film. And, I got mixed feelings.
And this AINT dump on Detroit .. you can find all kinda urban examples of decline/reuse -- sometimes demolition -- ALL over USA.
It's still here 100 years later, but this section of the building - the former Michigan Theater - is now a parking structure.
Yes, in the depths (behind them now) of its decline, this grand lady closed in 1976.
Later owners kept the office building part, gutting the theater part (pieces of that were donated to Detroit museums), made a parking deck that retained some of the ornate interior architecture. Probably nothing quite like it anywhre.
238 Bagley, Detroit, MI
source: Michigan Theatre | Historic Detroit
The 4,038-seat Michigan Theatre was designed in the French Renaissance style in 1925 and was simply unrivaled in Detroit in elegance at the time. \
The Michigan was built at Bagley and Cass avenues at a cost of more than $3.5 million ($42.4 million today, when adjusted for inflation) and was the only Detroit theater designed by renowned architects Cornelius W. and George L. Rapp.
The theater was the Rapp brothers' third largest, and it, and the 13-story Michigan Building office tower that it is connected to, would open in 1926
2021
back then, 1930's
Only here because I have parked here. And as a lad in late 60's, went there for a theatrical film. And, I got mixed feelings.
And this AINT dump on Detroit .. you can find all kinda urban examples of decline/reuse -- sometimes demolition -- ALL over USA.
It's still here 100 years later, but this section of the building - the former Michigan Theater - is now a parking structure.
Yes, in the depths (behind them now) of its decline, this grand lady closed in 1976.
Later owners kept the office building part, gutting the theater part (pieces of that were donated to Detroit museums), made a parking deck that retained some of the ornate interior architecture. Probably nothing quite like it anywhre.
238 Bagley, Detroit, MI
source: Michigan Theatre | Historic Detroit
The 4,038-seat Michigan Theatre was designed in the French Renaissance style in 1925 and was simply unrivaled in Detroit in elegance at the time. \
The Michigan was built at Bagley and Cass avenues at a cost of more than $3.5 million ($42.4 million today, when adjusted for inflation) and was the only Detroit theater designed by renowned architects Cornelius W. and George L. Rapp.
The theater was the Rapp brothers' third largest, and it, and the 13-story Michigan Building office tower that it is connected to, would open in 1926
2021
back then, 1930's
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