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

[MrMoparCHP]

Photo from the 1960's, assserted the be March's Mobil, Gratiot at Florence in Roseville MI. Locals recall it to have started life as a Sinclair, among other brands over the years.

source: March Mobil Gas

If any of that is true, NOTHING there today resembles this station. Streamline modern, alleged to have been built in late 1930's, porcelain over brick common of the brandboxes of the major oil company brands.

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You were right about one thing, nothing there today resembles this station
The picture clearly shows it being on a major boulevard, your location didn't work, even the historic for that location didn't work, no house, wrong orientation...
Correct location
28700 Gratiot Ave, Roseville, MI 48066

Alan

 

[amazinblue82]

You were right about one thing, nothing there today resembles this station
The picture clearly shows it being on a major boulevard, your location didn't work, even the historic for that location didn't work, no house, wrong orientation...
Correct location
28700 Gratiot Ave, Roseville, MI 48066
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Alan

yeah, that looks more like the geography. though I am a Detroit cat, I am more of a "west-sider" (west of Woodward Ave in Detroit parlance)

I kept using the words "asserted" and "alledged" because a major source was Faceplant (I didn't go decades BEFORE those "eyewitness" accounts of location).

 

[Big_John]

Parking lot now.

1917

 

[Big_John]

Another flooded dealership.

Reported to be the same building now.

 

[Big_John]

Since we had a flood, we have a fire.

Florida Everglades fire.

 

[Big_John]

 

[Big_John]

 

[Big_John]

Perpetuating a stereotype. Scotsman being cheap. LOL! (My paternal grandmother was Scottish)

 

[Big_John]

 

[Big_John]

OK, the pic isn't vintage, but the car is vintage Plymouth. Junk yard in San Antonio.

 

[Big_John]

 

[Big_John]

Colorado City, TX

 

[Big_John]

Chinn's Cave House Gas Station
Brooklyn Bridge, Kentucky
June 20, 1935

You'll want to watch the video on this one. Very interesting history complete with slot machines and illegal liquor.

Some more history here with recent pictures of the inside: Chinn’s Mine - Abandoned

 

[67newport]

West Point Ford, LaGrange, Georgia, 1955

Hub Ford dealership in Atlanta, Georgia, 1970

 

[Big_John]

This is in Manlius, NY on Fayette St, about 30 minutes east of me. Long gone, I was able to figure out about where it was and I think there's a bank now.

The second pic is from across the street and is of a more modern gas station before the bank.

BTW, the pond is locally famous, known as the "Swan Pond". There were swans there for years, but an immigrant family decided they looked yummy and snatched the two adult swans and their baby swans. One got butchered and eaten and they were keeping the others for future meals when they were found and returned to the pond. This made the news and somehow some agency that controls swans got wind of it and said "no more swans" as they are a protected species. So, no more swans. The pond is still there.

 

[Big_John]

Reedsville , West Virginia 1935

 

[Big_John]

Greenmount, PA

 

[Big_John]

Columbus, Georgia, 1909.

"Members of the Columbus Motorcycle Club pose for a photograph in front of the Columbus Motor Car Company"

 

[67newport]

New Jersey, Atlantic City, service Oil & Gas Co. station at Texas & Atlantic Ave. between the years 1920-1930

1930: Laurel, Indiana

Old gas station in Fort Sumner, New Mexico

 

[Big_John]