Shell gas station, New York City, New York.
Boulevard Gulf, Kingston, New York.
Hats ‘n Boots Texaco, Seattle, Washington.
Union 76 Gas, San Luis Obispo, California.
Gas station, Irrigon, Oregon.
Brother’s Mobil, Santa Monica, California.
Richfield Station, Cucamonga, California.
Gas station, Portland, Oregon.
Closer view of Boulevard Gulf, Kingston, New York.
Gordon Spencer gas station, South Pasadena, California.
Chevron Station, Brentwood, California.
Theres no gas pumps at the first Shell station
Nice collection of gas station photos, all have interesting roof lines or towers, the Brentwood station tower looks like it could be a room, the ice box gulf stations look more like building design. A little different than what we have today.
Boulevard Gulf in Kingston NY is now “Cake Box Bakery”:
Nice collection.
I liked the first one, the Shell with the yellow BMW, and the one in San Luis Obispo, very nice.
Canadian government ran a lot of tourism ads and billboards in the US during the 1970s. Many of the ads/billboards featured the then new ‘Canada’ wordmark. Which used the word ‘Canada’ with a small Canadian flag. The billboard beside the Portland station might be showing the wordmark. At the same time, there were a lot of Canadian Club whiskey ads/billboards running in the US. Both showed, a lot of the outdoors. Have a feeling, this may be Canadian Club, as the letter shapes are a bit off from the official wordmark. Top of the ‘C’, for example.
The fourth photo of Union 76 Gas, San Luis Obispo, California, was obviously at the Madonna Inn. I checked Google Maps street view and it looks like it may have been a wine shop for a while, but other street views do not include the wine shop signs.
Taking a guess at some of these curbside classics:
Pic 1
73 Cadillac Coupe de Ville
Pic 2
Chevy Vega, 74 Plymouth Duster, Oldsmobile Station Wagon, and the owner’s 65 Ford Galaxy
Pic 3
75 Chevy P/U with a 69 Olds Cutlass jacked up
Pic 4
67 Mustang, 69 Mercury Marquis, 75 Ford LTD, and a two-toned VW Beetle
Pic 5
75 Chevy Caprice
Pic 6
70 Lincoln Continental on the rack for brake replacement, maybe a GMC P/U behind it, 74 Suburban on the left
Pic 7
55 Ford 100
Pic 6
73 Toyota P/U
Pic 7
Nice 75 Pontiac Gran Ville and 72 Ford 100
Pic 8
64 Plymouth Valiant
Pic 9
69 Ford Torino, 66 Chevy Camero, and 75 Chevy P/U
WOW! What a GAS ⛽! TANKS for a Great post of long gone buildings and cars. History often repeats, but with today’s frantic desire to rush ahead without THOUGHT 🤪, where are we going? TARIFFickly insane? 🤔
The orange BMW 2002 in the lead shot could conceivably be my cousin’s, he owned one in the 70s and lived in NYC.
I’m surprised you didn’t include at least one Amoco with a Paul Bunyan statue.