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this will take those of us who are old timers back a few years.
Enjoy
Registered restrooms, free hot dogs and drinks and uniformed service station attendant
All the cars were made in the USA!
What planet was this? Boy... this will take you back!
Click >>> Old fuel stop
nationalize the fed
(2,169 posts)5 service workers on one car
to 1 person that sits in a booth. How long before droids replace all service work?
"You can trust your car to the man who wears the star!"
Recursion
(56,582 posts)Labor being cheaper than robots isn't really a good thing
nationalize the fed
(2,169 posts)Recursion
(56,582 posts)I hope he gives Mexican farmers a better deal than they got 20 years ago, personally
madokie
(51,076 posts)pumping gas, fixing flats, greasing and changing oil and washing cars. Kept me pretty busy but I got paid pretty good for it at the time.
summer before that I drove nails behind drywall hangers and it sucked in comparison.
This was in the early '60s, times were a tad different then than now.
HereSince1628
(36,063 posts)I think some people are better at being interrupted and then getting back on task, and I'm not really one of those.
madokie
(51,076 posts)when I heard the bell I rushed out to wait on them then I'd just come back to what I was doing. I got a lot of good paying job offers while I had that job but uncle sam wanted me in the jungles of 'nam and he won out and when I got home I wasn't interested in long term survival anymore. Only what got me through the day.
I think they have a name for it now. PTSD
pansypoo53219
(20,981 posts)pagoda style one near my mom's house. it is a free standing little museum. one still has pumps + they resisted tearing it down.
trusty elf
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JVS
(61,935 posts)Nice
Ford_Prefect
(7,901 posts)Us population 1950 = 151,325,798 ___World population = 2.55 Billion
Us population 2015 = 320,111,681 (estimated) ___ World Population 7.2 Billion
madokie
(51,076 posts)cheapest I ever paid was 15 cents a gallon.
We used to have price wars
When you opened up in the morning the first thing you'd take out was the price sign that you'd place by the curb. It would be the last thing you brought in at night and first put out in the morning
If I wasn't so old I'd open up a full service gas station today.
Omaha Steve
(99,663 posts)I first learned of this plane at the gas station almost forty years ago from a book on WWII I was reading. It had been there since 1947.
OS
The 'Lacey Lady' B-17 bomber, a Milwaukie landmark, comes down from its perch: http://www.oregonlive.com/milwaukie/index.ssf/2014/08/milwaukie_bomber.html
Photo slide show at link above.
MILWAUKIE, OREGON-Aug. 13, 2014--The B-17 bomber, a famous landmark on McLoughlin Boulevard in Milwaukie, was lowered to the ground Wednesday, part of a long-term restoration effort to restore
By Michael Bamesberger | mbamesberger@oregonian.com on August 13, 2014 at 5:50 PM, updated August 14, 2014 at 5:01 PM
A World War II B-17 Bomber airplane that has stood as a McLoughlin Boulevard landmark for 67 years came down from its perch on Wednesday as its owners make the first step toward a complete restoration.
A crew spent more than an hour using hydraulic lifts to gently bring the four-engine bomber to the ground. Over the next several months, the plane will be dismantled and transported to a hangar in Aurora.
A crowd of about 50 surrounded the plane to snap photos and watch as it slowly descended.
"I've got mixed feelings," said Randy Selvester, who has lived near the roadside attraction his entire life. "I got one of my first jobs pumping gas here back in 1973."
The nonprofit group B-17 Alliance is spearheading the restoration effort, with the goal of getting the plane back into flying condition. Terry Scott, the organization's director and wife of the plane's original owner's grandson, said the plane is one of fewer than 50 of its kind remaining in the world.
For decades, the plane helped owners Art and Birdine Lacey sell gasoline and hamburgers on their Oak Grove property. The bomber's wings served as shelter for a 48-pump independent gas station and beckoned travelers to dine at the Lacey's Bomber Restaurant.
Milwaukie landmark B-17 bomber touches down in restoration effort
Video: http://video-embed.oregonlive.com/services/player/bcpid1949055967001?bctid=3729206990001&bckey=AQ~~,AAAAPLpuSqE~,a1DdoZJH5WQo4iWaJj1w_CktvJfhQVVG
The B-17 bomber, a famous landmark on McLoughlin Boulevard in Milwaukie, was lowered to the ground Wednesday, part of a long-term restoration effort to restore "Lacey Lady," a World War Two bomber, to flying condition. A crew from Emmert International built a support structure under the former gas station fixture and then slowly and systematically lowered it to a place to where the front wheels touched land. The plane will be dismantled further and transported to a hanger in Aurora where a volunteer group, the B-17 Alliance, is working to restore it.
Art Lacey, a colorful and outspoken businessman, purchased the plane on a whim from an Oklahoma Air Force base after World War II. He and a pair of friends flew the plane back to Oregon and transported it without a permit to a 3.5 acre plot of land, where it has sat ever since.
Nicknamed "Lacey Lady," the attraction helped sustain the Lacey family businesses for decades. But the condition of the bomber slowly declined as it suffered abuse from vandals, occupying pigeons and Oregon rain.
In 1991, facing increasing competition and steep costs to replace underground fuel tanks, the couple closed the gas station but continued to operate the restaurant and a 15-unit motel.
In the years since, Art and Birdine Lacey's family began to see the plane less as a road sign and more as a valuable artifact worth preserving.
In 1996, the family began working to restore the plane and later opened an onsite museum. So far, they've spent hundreds of thousands to restore a section of the nosecone, finance the move and begin other repairs. But the entire effort may cost up to $4 million, said Punkie Scott, Art and Birdine Lacey's daughter.
The B-17 Alliance accepts donations through its website.
Punkie Scott said she hopes to install a flag garden and some sort of memorial in place of the plane. Art Lacey died of congestive heart failure in 2000 and Birdine died in 2008.
A replica of the "Lacey Lady" would be appropriate, too, she said.
-- Michael Bamesberger
http://www.timesnews.net/article/9080868/restored-wwii-era-bomber-touches-down-at-tcra
The most difficult task was locating a top turret. One was eventually found through Art and Birdine Lacey, who owned the "Bomber Gas Station" in Milwaukie, Ore., where a B-17 had been sitting on top of their station for more than 37 years. Harsh weather and vandals had done significant damage, but the top turret was still intact. A deal was struck between both parties: the Arizona Wing would provide much needed work for the "The Bomber," and the Laceys would donate the top turret to Sentimental Journey.
brooklynite
(94,604 posts)bvf
(6,604 posts)Dalmatians?
If so, it would be interesting to know the provenance of that one.
Almost seems anachronistic.
bvf
(6,604 posts)My oldest brother worked at a SOHIO station a couple blocks down from where we lived when I was growing up in Cleveland.
It makes me feel old to think the passage of these neighborhood institutions was already in effect when "Back to the Future" came out.
Enjoyable pics, thanks
drynberg
(1,648 posts)At 25 cents a gallon...ahhh, those were the days
AwakeAtLast
(14,132 posts)My grandfather worked for Marathon for 45 years. We have a picture of him standing in front of the old tanks, newsboy cap and all. Priceless!
Thanks for posting!
Omaha Steve
(99,663 posts)marble falls
(57,112 posts)FSogol
(45,491 posts)madokie
(51,076 posts)I'm on the run right now but when I get back I'll tell you the story of my life's first incident with a racist. This happened when I worked at the gas station while in high school
FSogol
(45,491 posts)"In 1939 Texaco became one of the first oil companies to introduce a "Registered Rest Room" program to ensure that restroom facilities at all Texaco stations nationwide maintained a standard level of cleanliness to the motoring public. The company hired a staff of inspectors who traveled from station to station periodically to ensure that restrooms were up to standard. The "Registered Rest Room" program was later copied by other oil companies and continued at Texaco until the energy crises of the 1970s."
petronius
(26,602 posts)moondust
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IcyPeas
(21,893 posts)upaloopa
(11,417 posts)840high
(17,196 posts)every time I said this......