Old gas stations

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Sorry, if I'm not sure, I assume Lizzie - my apologies.

 

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Sorry, if I'm not sure, I assume Lizzie - my apologies

Hmmm...you are aware what happens when you assume.


No apologies required...jest kiddin' with ya! [/QUOTE]

I remember that "Odd Couple" episode well

 

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Rob

 

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Perth, AU, 1930s

Rob

 

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Rob,
As always you are an inspiration.
Makes me want to go on the “search engine”.



From Nat’l Library~Australia

From social media:

Quote:
Clayton Leist My grandfather ran the place and sold cars from
there back in the 40’s.
Built in 1936 as a 3 story Motor garage & service station.

I used to ride the works pushy past that place every day from
West Perth Subway into town doing deliverie.” (sic) Unquote.

Today:

They preferred it the way it used to look like the '30s photo
you posted.

 

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Perth, Australia.

 

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Perth, AU, 1930s

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Perth, Australia.

Absolutely incredible. The Art Deco influences are wonderful as are those incredible tilt out windows.

Somehow, though, the picture is more than architecture; it captures the "feel" of the era (helped by the gentleman just visible walking down the sidewalk on the right side of the pic). Maybe it seems this way, in part, because of 2Jakes' "today" picture where almost all of the elegance, all of the Art Deco has been replaced by ugly blandness that says I don't care about this building.

I think buildings just meant more in the era. We build today - and the buildings are important for function and economics - but for the most part, the design seems a minor part of it / a box to be checked / a marketing ploy sometimes / but not something deeply felt as, IMHO, it seems buildings were in the era.

 

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I think buildings just meant more in the era. We build today - and the buildings are important for function and economics - but for the most part, the design seems a minor part of it / a box to be checked / a marketing ploy sometimes / but not something deeply felt as, IMHO, it seems buildings were in the era.

Yes, I agree.
Although I feel as if any moment I will see Charles Laughton
swinging around, ringing the bells from atop the structure.
I love those street lights on the sidewalk to the lower right.

Broad Street Station:

Designed in the Victorian Gothic style by Wilson Bros. of Philadelphia in 1881.
Also Frank Furness from Philadelphia.

 

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Yes, I agree.
Although I feel as if any moment I will see Charles Laughton
swinging around, ringing the bells from atop the structure.
I love those street lights on the sidewalk to the lower right.

Broad Street Station:

Designed in the Victorian Gothic style by Wilson Bros. of Philadelphia in 1881.
Also Frank Furness from Philadelphia.

One of my top five favorite passages in any book is when Quasimodo, carrying Esmeralda, screens "Sanctuary" as he pops in and out of view. It is incredibly moving and has stayed with me ever since I first read it. While well done by Laughton, no movie, IMHO, ever captured the full power of that scene as written by Hugo (one of my favorite authors).

As to the building, while my tastes lean toward Beaux Arts and early Art Deco (with a big shout out for Arts and Craft), I do enjoy the crazy over-the-topness of the 19th / early 20th Century Gothic structures.

 

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Shell.

This is the son of a very famous actor known for his “moxie” stance especially during the “gangster 30s era”.
He gave his son his blessings when Jr. decided to go into the service station business.

Can you name the actor?

 

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That's the son of the "you dirty rat" guy, who implored his ma to look at him "on top of the world"...although, I don't think he ever really said that dirty rat line (kinda like Cary Grant's "Judy Judy Judy").

Rob

 

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Then and now...

Rob

 

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Standard Oil, 1940s.

 

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Standard Oil, 1940s.

Great pic! I love the old wig wam motels. Before I got divorced, the ex and I would take the kids up to the one in Kentucky every summer.

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