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The oil companies did not like the term "gas station." They wanted people to call them "service stations."

Send me back to the real Los Angeles.

Born and raised in Los Angeles. Thank you for sharing. Do you have any old photos of the Washington & Figueroa area

Is it just me but do these pictures of life back then make you all have a wonderful happy feeling in your stomach that lifts into your lungs with an air of freshness and normalcy? Does your mind wander into wanting to live in these images?🤗 I'm old enough to be a product of growing up in the 70's and 80's where things still resembled much of these images. What the Hell has happened?🤔

My dad and I ran a DX service station back in 1958 and gave out green stamps and changed oils and fixed tires and tune up cars 😊

An interesting look as how grocery shopping nearly remains the same throughout the decades...except for the prices. 🛒

Today, the only Drive-in Restaurants still active are the ones run by Sonic. I was lucky to have had lunch there with my family back in the early 2ks. 🍔

So many long gone gasoline brands: ESSO, Sinclair, Texaco, Sunoco, Signal... just to name a few. ⛽

This was before the Interstate Highway System.

I grew up in a Sinclair station started in late twenties or so .Grand father was a schooled mechanic and built his own 1937 Packard tow truck.

Miss it all

B+W 👍Color 👎 The Music Sucked.

Why do you say African-American they are American 💯

No matter what you work in, arrive to deliver service the way these people provided service decades ago to people. It all starts with us.

My father had a Flying A gas station in Queens NY in the late 60s early 70s. He said he didn’t make much money selling gasoline. Most of the money was made fixing cars.

Your captions on what picture we are seeing are 1 behind. from 4:20 to 4:30

There an awful lot of photos in this video from the '60s and even a few from the '70s.

good old time when cars weights more than 4000 pounds and people less than 160 pounds...

1950's Gas Stations??? How come there was a 1967 PONTIAC LEMANS parked RIGHT NEXT TO THE BUILDING in the SECOND SHOT IN THE VIDEO??? And it DIDN'T LOOK LIKE IT WAS NEW. Seems more like Gas Stations in the late 1960's early 1970s, which I AM OLD ENOUGH to remember... Guess old Doc Brown misprogrammed the FLUX CAPACITOR on this one...

Notice how skinny folks were. This was before the greaseburger franchises arrived. My dad's Standard station in rural Iowa closed when WWII deprived stations of product and his health declined a bit. Since then, the building has been an apartment and a beauty parlor but may be empty now. Our town was on cross-country federal highway 6, which had sustained eight gas stations in this little town of 900. Interstate 80 bypasses such communities, and highway 6 exists only in short segments here and there across America.

I grew up in the LA area, Yoba Linda to be exact. I love growing up in the Yoba Linda area and I miss it. Love from Marysville California

Once again, awesome memories relived. I have a not so awesome memory from a Kroger's though. On a Friday in 1963 I was with my grandmother standing in line being checked out. The store was always packed on Friday night because everyone got paid and Kroger's would cash paychecks and it was convenient to cash your check, as banks were already closed, then grocery shop. While standing there a group of 4 or 5 holdup men ran into the store with pistols and shotguns and robbed the place. One that came to the register we were at ripped my grandmother's glasses off her face. They robbed only the registers and the check cashing booth and didn't bother any of the customers money. It was pretty shocking as a kid.

I loved the drive-in we had in our town. Called Frost Top, it served huge mugs of frosty cold root beer with ice on the outside of the mugs. Best onion rings I've ever had. That was the 50s and I think it lasted into the 70s but I had left the town long before that. Speaking of the 50s, the pic @10:21 isn't circa 1940s. That is either a 56 or 57 Corvette. Maybe some expert could identify which one. Thanks again for the walk down memory lane.

Incorrect information often does not stand the Test Of Time but there are always Innovators who will provide new incorrect information to replace it.

WOW those were the days. I worked at several gas stations in Hemet California in the late 50s and 60s. My favorite one was a large ststion on the corner or Florida Ave & San Jacinto St. On the back side of the station was Griffs drive in resturant. That was the local hange out for teens & Hot Rods. WOW the memories of yester year. That was 60years ago for me.

There is only 2 states that pump your gas and check tires. Oregon and I think Hawaii.

I enjoyed the pictures, but many are not in cities. I also wish you'd identified the locations instead of the monologue. Also, as others have pointed out, some of the photos are from later than the 1950s.

Palm tree garden in northern Wyoming?

We can do without the damn narrative.

Too bad there all but gone.

Love the pic of two ladies and a '53 or 54 Chevy towing a LARGE travel trailer around 9:45. That car could barely climb that hill alone, much less pull that load. Amazing!

I have been driving cars for 50 years and owned many vehicles and l was a courier for over 30 years and owned utes and van's now the last bench seat l had was in a Datsun 720 ute with a column manual gear stick they are not difficult to use l also had a Datsun C20 van which had a collum gear shifter and it didn't have a behch seat the drivers seat was a bucket seat and the passenger seat was a double seat same as in my 2004 Mazda Bravo but it had a floor mounted manual bear shift it was possible to carry three adults in it although the centre passenger had only a lap belt and my 1997 Toyota Hilux has the same arrangement ant on its registration it is a 3 seater but l don't know were the centre passenger would put there legs and there is a lap belt for the centre passenger also quarter windows (vents) my 1997 Toyota Hilux has them only available on the Australian varient and continued onto the next generation until 2003 as for ashtrays and cigarette lighters the Toyota Land Cruiser 79 series still has them so that is one trend that is still around

Show the town name for each station.

Great pictures but the AC's in apartment windows and the Bud Light sign in a bar window throws the time line off. Overall a good video.

When I was a kid in the 50's, we had a coal fired boiler system for steam heat in our house. The coal truck would come weekly and dump coal into the coal shute that went into storage in the basement where it would get fed into the boiler as needed.

Oh wow, there's a new video from this creator on house features that have become obsolete. Dare I watch? Does the creator know more about houses than cars?

The content creator is putting a heart on every response. LOL.

Thumbs D O W N For that stupid AI-inspired voice-over that does NOT pronounce words correctly!! Get a REAL person to do it!

bench seats were great, vent windows were superb, Buckets seats sucks, Hood louvers were awesome, There are some things that are NOT improvements.

The "one feature..." A carburetor.

I used to own a 1972 Oldsmobile 98 Regency. It had a front bench seat. You could fit 8 people in it without too much discomfort. The thing was massive. When the drive in switched from charging per car load to per person, you could easily fit two people in the gigantic trunk to get them in for free. That car sure did love its gas though with that 455 engine in it.

The footage from 0:57 to 1:16 is a scene from the early 1970s , not the 50s. I first came to the US in 1970 and recognize the cars.

Probably the reason the old gas stations remained abandoned was because of the ground where the tanks were stored are contaminated and cannot be used for anything and were condemned by the EPA

It's really difficult for these old eyes to read the captions with the font you're using. Just saying.

95 % of photos all ready shared By memory lane

THE best of times

What is the name of the music please?

👍 Thank you (and the ladies).

No ugly torn jeans with holes or rips worn then. No ugly tattoos on women. No nose piercings, no multi -ear piercings, no pants worn out that looked like pajamas. No dresses worn outside that looked like slips. (Underwear).

I grew up in the 50s to the mid 60s ,best years of my life