Old gas stations

[2jakes]

Shell shock...I mean....Shell socks!

 

[Fading Fast]

You’ve mentioned this before and you won’t get no argument from me.
I too would rather be there flippin' pages like crazy with Dorothy!

But noticed the dejected look on Malone when Bogie makes his farewell
from the book-shop, she knows she’s not ever going to see him
again.

Bogie might be good with solving cases....but not with how to treat
a doll like Malone.
If it was me, I’d go back to the book-shop to get my book card
punched again and more important show her know how much
I cared for her.

All fair points*, but there is something to the instance of their meeting. Yes, she appeared sad and maybe he and / or she will wistfully look back on that day for awhile, but as their lives go on, the singularity - the serendipity - of the moment will have a poignancy in reflection that will contribute to their lives' experiences and memories in, hopefully, a pleasant if even a bit remorseful way.


*My post assumes that nothing was explicitly or implicitly promised or said by Bogie to Malone about follow up.

 

[2jakes]

Your follow up expresses it very well.
I totally agree.

I will head on to the appropriate “movie"section and perhaps post that
besides Jack Benny and Oliver Hardy....Bogart was another actor
that would look straight at the camera as if we were intruding on his actions.
Especially in ‘The Big Sleep” when he is driving Bacall’s naughty sister back home.

And speaking of naughty no-no at the pump.

This illustrates how I feel about it!

 

[Ghostsoldier]

Rob

 

[2jakes]

 

[2jakes]

UNION GASOLINE

“Promo time”...

 

[2jakes]

UNION AERO

 

[2jakes]

Union tiles. Nice!

 

[Ghostsoldier]

Rob

 

[2jakes]

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Rob

A little bit of history on this gas station.

Photo taken after 1955, year unknown.

Photo taken Sept. 30, 1955.
James Dean’s last stop.
He was on his way to Salinas Road Race in California.

Photo taken 2016.

The gas station was demolished last September.

 

[Ghostsoldier]

Rob

 

[Ghostsoldier]

A day at the station, in 1937.

Rob

 

[Benzadmiral]

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Rob

Ca. 1959-60 timeframe, I think. The Chevy on the far left is a '59, and the dark T-Bird turning in up the street on the far right is one of the "Square Birds" of '58, 59, or '60. The pic could be from later, but people tended to trade their cars more often in those days, despite the '55 Chevy Nomad in the center to say otherwise.

 

[Ghostsoldier]

Rob

 

[Benzadmiral]

Rob

I know it's not one, but the 2-door fastback style is much like the first car I remember well, my father's '47 Cadillac.

 

[BlueTrain]

Same here. My father's first car was a 1950 Chevrolet "Deluxe," black, four-door. It had "spats" for the rear wheels or whatever they were called. They weren't as big as they looked.

 

[2jakes]

Same here. My father's first car was a 1950 Chevrolet "Deluxe," black, four-door. It had "spats" for the rear wheels or whatever they were called. They weren't as big as they looked.

Are you referring to this?

Fender-skirts.

 

[2jakes]

I grew up when cars had running boards and gas stations provided full service at the pumps.
There's nothing like an original b&w photo.
Yet I like colorized photos because they make me feel like I'm there once again.

 

[BlueTrain]

Yes, fender skirts. I don't remember if the car had running boards, though. It had seat covers made of a woven plastic fabric that looked like the kind of flat plastic stuff you would use to make lanyards and things like that in the scouts. It had a three-speed on the column and no radio. I had one car that had a four-speed on the column that I thought was a really slick transmission. It was a Renault 16 hatchback. I don't remember that much about the old Chevy except that the cigar lighter was an interesting thing. Naturally it had no air conditioning but it did have the little quarter-lights in the front window that you could open and get a nice breeze. Most people didn't drive as fast as they do now but the roads weren't as good, either. I also don't remember it getting as hot during the summer as it does now. But for that matter, I don't remember it getting all that cold in the winter, either, although I'm sure it did.

The Chevrolet had plain fender skirts, of course, with plain hub caps.

 

[BlueTrain]

I just did a search of images of 1950 Chevrolets and there were a lot more variations that I imagined, although it is likely that I never saw that many of them and even if I did, I wouldn't have remembered them anyway. One of the few old cars I remember was a Studebaker than a neighbor had, one that had a wraparound rear window.