Neat, clean and proud. Just as I remember a service station. These days, if a customer needs anything, they are treated as an inconvenience.
Looks like more than one gas station/convenience store/fireworks/cigarette peddler I've seen in the local aboriginal reserves (they also have some pretty imaginative and hilarious names for their establishments). They're a good place to find cheap gas. I usually fill up at one of those when I visit the nearby Exporail museum. Nice folks.
The Yellow Cab gasoline station shown here, at the corner of West Tenth and North Western, in Oklahoma City, sold gasoline to the public. The banner at the bottom of the sign advertises leaded gasoline (tetra ethyl) for eight gallons for a dollar (12 1/2 cents a gallon).
Don't know the date of your photo. In 1947 or '48, my father returned home from work and told me to hook the trailer to the Jeep and help put four 55 Gallon drums in it. The next morning, we went to New Jersey where there was a gas war and gas was going on for 7 Cents/Gallon.
Another handsome station. Which is even more enhanced by the '32 DeSoto out front. The newest car in view is a circa 1937, down the block to the right.
I watch a YouTube channel, Adam the Woo. He travels the back roads and towns that have their better days way behind them. There are quite a few interesting buildings in these videos including old gas stations.
Where was/is Granite City? That is a really interesting gas pump. I have never seen one like it. Love the globe atop.
Cool history, didn't know Pontiac was previously named Oakland! Love how everyone is so casual, just hanging out. Worked a few gas stations as a kid doing full service, we'd be like this too. Waiting for that next car, but usually a broom in hand, lol! " You got time for leanin', you got time for cleanin"! Heard that alot!
I don't believe it was so named. As I recall, Pontiac was started as a subsidiary line of Oakland. (Oakland was then owned by GM.) It outgrew, and eventually supplanted Oakland in sales. The Oakland name later being discontinued and Pontiac becoming a main product line under GM.
And Buick created Marquette, Oldsmobile created Viking and Cadillac created LaSalle, each a little cheaper than the main series, all in 1928. The stock market crash caused Buick and Olds to stop messing around, because the car market suddenly wasn't as big as it was. Pontiac, Chief of the Sixes, caught on in a big way, and Oakland stopped messing with the Oakland brand, which had never been that popular. All that was done by 1932. LaSalle, meanwhile, like Packard 120 and 110, and Lincoln Zephyr, was something some people could afford during the depression, and allowed Cadillac to survive. Unlike the others, it didn't cheapen the Cadillac brand, because they didn't call them Cadillacs. Having served that purpose, it was gone by 1941.
Looks like it was in granite City Illinois. It is where my partner and I had our Honda Suzuki and Norton motorcycle shop. Sumner
