Ha ha ha. I hear and read about that type of stuff all too often. And too frequently they are not driving impaired. Yikes. I am so glad I was alive during the times of snack bars, soda fountains and drive-in hamburger joints. Great fun. The food was reliably good or even delicious. Great memories.
They still have Sonic drive-ins around here. I occasionally eat at one. Now you pull into a parking space under a canopy and up to a touch screen menu, pay with a credit card or your smart phone and then a real human still brings you order out to you. No tray to hang on your door though. The food is OK but typical fast food.
Well, yeah. But a different kind of gas I suppose. Every now and then we head on down a different track. Usually something to do with automobiles. However we do get around to the thread topic.
I wish I had pictures of my aunt's gas pump at her store in Hudson Bay, MAN. The old hand pump glass tank with manual valve!
I had one displayed in a station I once owned. People who complain today about getting gas, should be forced to use one of the hand pumps. Then they'd know how easy life is now.
Way back when, life was hard, but it was simple. Today, life is easy, but really complicated. Everyone now wants easy and simple. Served on a silver platter. With a side of pickles.
That's a great summary @Mike VE2TRV. I sent it on to one of my brothers who will appreciate it as much as I do.
Those guys looked dang good in their uniforms. I think he put the Ethyl crown on the Solite pump... and is putting the Solite crown on this one... At least he can change a light bulb all by himself...
Look like stacks of o-rings. People actually drove on those poor, skinny little excuses for tires. Thank God these days even Harley Davidsons put more rubber to the road than that.
Better those tires than the wide but very low ones that kill your expensive alloy rims when you hit a sizable pothole/crater. (around here potholes are called nids-de-poule, or chicken nests... I'd swear some of them are big and deep enough for an ostrich )
That building, suprisingly, still exists! Some changes from the 1940s but still recognizable. Garage door, entrances and windows all still in the same places. No stacks of tires!
