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[GMCnet] Old Gas Station Photos [message #195279] Wed, 09 January 2013 09:47 Go to next message
Tim Conway is currently offline  Tim Conway   United States
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Some very interesting photos. One has a very attractive travel trailer pulled by a nice Pontiac station wagon. Another showing Nebraska pushing Corn Alcohol back in the thirties (looks like from the cars)...

http://hipspics.freewebspace.com/gas/gas.html

Tim Conway
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Re: [GMCnet] Old Gas Station Photos [message #195283 is a reply to message #195279] Wed, 09 January 2013 10:32 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Nelson Wright is currently offline  Nelson Wright   United States
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OK, how did they stack those cars six layers high behind the Texaco service station? Big Forklift?

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On Jan 9, 2013, at 10:47 AM, Tim Conway wrote:

> Some very interesting photos. One has a very attractive travel trailer pulled by a nice Pontiac station wagon. Another showing Nebraska pushing Corn Alcohol back in the thirties (looks like from the cars)...
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> http://hipspics.freewebspace.com/gas/gas.html
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Re: [GMCnet] Old Gas Station Photos [message #195284 is a reply to message #195283] Wed, 09 January 2013 10:41 Go to previous messageGo to next message
James Hupy is currently offline  James Hupy   United States
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Nope, those parking lot racks have a turntable elevator, complete with
NON-STONED ELEVATOR OPERATORS. Probably be a real bad idea today.(grin)
Jim Hupy
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On Jan 9, 2013 8:32 AM, "Nelson Wright" <f25ccapt@gmail.com> wrote:

> OK, how did they stack those cars six layers high behind the Texaco
> service station? Big Forklift?
>
> Nelson Wright
> Orlando FL
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> On Jan 9, 2013, at 10:47 AM, Tim Conway wrote:
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> > Some very interesting photos. One has a very attractive travel trailer
> pulled by a nice Pontiac station wagon. Another showing Nebraska pushing
> Corn Alcohol back in the thirties (looks like from the cars)...
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> > http://hipspics.freewebspace.com/gas/gas.html
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Re: [GMCnet] Old Gas Station Photos [message #195287 is a reply to message #195284] Wed, 09 January 2013 11:29 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Carl S. is currently offline  Carl S.   United States
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Here are a couple pics of a restored gas station we ran across in Shamrock, TX. on our way to the GMCMI Convention in Shawnee last year:

http://www.gmcmhphotos.com/photos/gmcmi-shawnee-2012/p47103-gas-station-in-shamrock-tx.html

http://www.gmcmhphotos.com/photos/gmcmi-shawnee-2012/p47106-gas-station-in-shamrock-tx.html

We got there (to the ramshackle RV park) and parked the coach, with towd, a little late in the evening and didn't make the effort to go out for a photo op. When we left in the morning, it was too dark to take pictures. This is along old route 66, just south of I-40. Well worth the short detour to see it.

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Re: [GMCnet] Old Gas Station Photos [message #195288 is a reply to message #195279] Wed, 09 January 2013 11:46 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Edward Jarmul is currently offline  Edward Jarmul   United States
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Actually with 2 stacks of 3 cars the lift would not be that high or 3
stacks 2 lifting the larger 4 stack onto the 2 stack. Stack Balance

EdJ
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Re: [GMCnet] Old Gas Station Photos [message #195293 is a reply to message #195288] Wed, 09 January 2013 12:37 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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That gas station in Shamrock, Tx was used in the original CARS movie. Did
you notice the "real" Mater parked down the street?

Margie
On Jan 9, 2013 5:46 PM, "Edward Jarmul" <falcon160244@gmail.com> wrote:

> Actually with 2 stacks of 3 cars the lift would not be that high or 3
> stacks 2 lifting the larger 4 stack onto the 2 stack. Stack Balance
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Re: [GMCnet] Old Gas Station Photos [message #195298 is a reply to message #195283] Wed, 09 January 2013 13:17 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Nelson Wright wrote on Wed, 09 January 2013 11:32

OK, how did they stack those cars six layers high behind the Texaco service station? Big Forklift?

Nelson Wright

Nelson,

There were several of those in NYC when I was young. What you can't see is the lift that is between the two units. They fell out of favor for some reason. I do not know. I do know that something similar was built and used at the old St. Joe hospital in Ann Arbor (MI). They have moved and I don't know what has become of it. That one was automated.

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Re: [GMCnet] Old Gas Station Photos [message #195300 is a reply to message #195293] Wed, 09 January 2013 13:46 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Margie Van Winkle wrote on Wed, 09 January 2013 11:37

That gas station in Shamrock, Tx was used in the original CARS movie. Did
you notice the "real" Mater parked down the street?

Margie





No, we missed that somehow.

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Re: [GMCnet] Old Gas Station Photos [message #195303 is a reply to message #195279] Wed, 09 January 2013 14:43 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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There was one of those parking contraptions in nyc around West 39th street I think. I always wondered about the skill level required to pick the car random in The stack. It was still there a couple of years ago.
Kind of reminds me of those little square puzzels where you had to line up all the numbers with only one blank space to move in. It's a Hell of a thing!

1975 Eleganza II Hudson Valley NY

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Re: [GMCnet] Old Gas Station Photos [message #195305 is a reply to message #195303] Wed, 09 January 2013 15:39 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Bomber Gas is still in business on Rt 30 in Oregon. The plane is quite sad and the nose section was removed for restoration some years ago. It (the nose) sits in an adjacent building and restoration is well along. As for the rest of the plane.....

Glenn

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Re: [GMCnet] Old Gas Station Photos [message #195307 is a reply to message #195279] Wed, 09 January 2013 16:24 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Tim,

I got this series of photos from someone can't remember who due to CRS and I too spotted the photo touting "Corn Alcohol." If you
look in the lower left hand corner of that photo you will see a date 4-11-33.

I forwarded it to a number of gear heads / GMCers over there and someone noted that must have played hell with the rubber compounds
they used for fuel lines back then.

Regards,
Rob M.
USAussie - Downunder
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USA '75 Avion - Double Trouble TZE365V100426


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Some very interesting photos. One has a very attractive travel trailer pulled by a nice Pontiac station wagon. Another showing
Nebraska pushing Corn Alcohol back in the thirties (looks like from the cars)...

http://hipspics.freewebspace.com/gas/gas.html

Tim

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Re: [GMCnet] Old Gas Station Photos [message #195309 is a reply to message #195279] Wed, 09 January 2013 17:09 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Hmmm... One of them had 10% Corn Alcohol. Gasohol way back then too!

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Re: [GMCnet] Old Gas Station Photos [message #195380 is a reply to message #195305] Fri, 11 January 2013 06:55 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Glenn Giere wrote on Wed, 09 January 2013 13:39

Bomber Gas is still in business on Rt 30 in Oregon. The plane is quite sad and the nose section was removed for restoration some years ago. It (the nose) sits in an adjacent building and restoration is well along. As for the rest of the plane.....

Glenn


Actually the gas station closed a few years back. the B17G bomber is owned by the resturant named "The Bomber Resturant". Bing maps has a good birds eye view... "13515 SE McLoughlin Blvd., Milwaukie, Oregon"

I have been told the food there is pretty good but haven't tried it myself. (Been meaning to.) Might be a good place to have a Northwest GMC Mini Rally... kind of like that bunch down in Oki, Texas or somewhere.... Twisted Evil

https://www.facebook.com/BomberRestaurant



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Re: [GMCnet] Old Gas Station Photos [message #195396 is a reply to message #195279] Fri, 11 January 2013 15:41 Go to previous message
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The Shell Station photo with the station wagon pulling the aluminum trailer is actually a black and white fairly current photo. The station is at the Gilmore Museum at Hickory Corners north east of Kalamazoo Michigan.

Michael Schultz
Maple City MI

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