Gas Stations & Garages - The Early Years (1920s-1940s)
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- Опубликовано: 20 окт 2023
- Top off your tank with a full-service fill-up of weekly nostalgia!
In this captivating video, we're thrilled to present a stunning collection of vintage photographs that capture the essence of an era when the open road beckoned and these service stations were an integral part of the journey.
From classic pumps and timeless signage to the iconic architecture and the ever-friendly attendants, this curated selection of photographs will transport you back to the world of yesteryear. These snapshots provide a glimpse into the evolution of the gas station culture, highlighting the simplicity, elegance, and iconic designs of a bygone era.
Join us on this visual time travel as we explore how the gas station landscape has changed over the decades. Whether you're a history enthusiast, a vintage photography aficionado, or just someone who appreciates the charm of the past, this video promises to be an enriching experience.
Sit back, relax, and let's take a ride down memory lane together. Welcome to a world where the gas station was more than just a place to fill up your tank; it was a portal to the past.
Thanks for watching, and enjoy the journey! 🚗💨📸
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I hate to just parrot what others are commenting, that is show both color and B/W. Those of us who grew up in the bygone days did so in color. Everything was just as brilliantly in color as our surroundings today. AI colorization, while never historically accurate, adds a depth and realism that grayscale just cannot match. So as you apply your magic to these amazing historical photos, give us a fair amount of both. And thank you for these great video peeks into our past.
Thanks so much for your well-considered response. I tend to lean on the colorization side myself. When I look at both shots side-by-side, the color just seems to look more realistic and "current" so to speak. You phrase the explanation well - thanks!
b&w is fine
I remember in color. That’s how I like it
I am a 70 year old over in the UK, and I have just one word, brilliant, 😊😊😊,
And I have two: Thank You!!!
I like both colored and black and white. I just love old photos period.
Me too! Thanks!
Old enough now to remember dad pulling into the service station and asking the attendant to fill her up and could you check the oil please.
Definitely 100% black & white.
I remember that too - I was always confused when my mom would let them, "keep the change." Thanks for your opinion on color vs. black & white!
I remember attendants wearing uniforms added a sense of dignity
There were many professions back then that had their own uniforms & dress codes that designated what profession it was. Your description is correct. Dignity, something lacking today.
Having a tire gauge and a pen in my left shirt pocket was cool. And if left at home made a sucky day lol
Before my time, but I can still remember how cold the drinks were stopping into a SERVICE STATION during our yearly summer trip down south. Mom, Dad 4 kids and our dog..with no air conditioning! Best time of my life.
We like when they start out B&W and then fade to colorized. Love the old photos! Thanks for the memories.
any way you want all videos are perfect and thank you fore the trip back in time👍👏👍
B and W is fine. Colorized is not bad either. Love the vintage photos.
Thanks for you input. I’m glad you’re liking the old photos!
Being the ripe old age of 89 I can relate very well to this as I worked at stations just like this. I missed it so bad, I built a replica complete with pumps in my backyard !
Definitely in black and white!
Thanks!
Original black & white, of course.
I imagine for most of this audience remembers time when you couldn't colorize so b&w is no sweat. Good pics!
I love the music choice for your videos. I love the old gas stations. It is so common for car collectors to buy vintage gas pumps or a replica of one!
@ 1:31 We still wore those same white uniforms and hats at Standard Stations in LA in the 60s. Also a special service station belt that had an extra flap over the buckle to cover it from scratching a customers car while wiping the windows.
My uniform was blue. Leather covered belt.
Standard Oil of Ohio. (Sohio)
Top of the line customer service in those days.
@@TomSpeaks-vw1zp And if there was only 1 car at the pumps some managers had us do all the windows so no one was standing around.
The old photos in black and white are O.K. but colorized brings out more detail of what things may have actually looked like at the time.
Thanks! I feel like the color does tend to make things look more "real."
Love the pic with Sam Drucker as the owner. I got the Petticoat Junction reference.
Thank you, Thank you…brought back a great visual of bygone days 👏🏻. Imagine .19 cents a gallon and also pumping your gasoline AND washing your windshields…geezzz !
Sam Drucker the same name of the character from Petticoat Junction!
7:01 Good old "Orge-gon". A most pleasurable place to visit!
back during a time where a visit to the local filling station was a pleasure and often looked forward to...
The year was 1968. I was 14 years old and had just bought myself a 1961, 125cc Yamaha motorcycle, with my own summer job money. Gas was just .25 cents a gallon. I could fill up my tank for .75 cents and drive forever! A little trick to get some more gas was when you got the amount you were going to pay for, you shut the pump off and then with the filler still in the tank you'd squeeze the handle again. Any gas still left in the hose would run down into your tank. Sometimes you'd get a whole pint or more depending on how long the hose was! And in a small motorcycle that meant another 10 or 15 miles!
I would love to see a video of the before and after colorization process if that is possible. You could start one shot in
black and white and an invisible bar goes across slowly from left to right with it becoming a color shot. Call it a step
up in the game, and a good one to entertain the viewer! I think I have a set of DVD's of the Three Stooges in color where
they did just that. It also explained how difficult it was to find the correct color of objects that no longer exist so they had
to guess. You do some excellent color rendering for us Kevin, so thanks for that!
I thought Mr Drucker ran a general store in Hooterville,
I absolutely love your channel no matter color or black & white- Please keep 'em coming- Thx!!
Thanks, @pepaw4431! Definitely more to come - thanks for watching!
Those pumps and advertising signs would demand thousands today.
Wonderful either way is good luv it cheers 😊
❤the photos the way they were taken. Ha Ha the one one guy is smoking at the pumps , cigarette is in his left hand.
Love all of it
Wonderful - thank you!
Black and white please great video 👍💯 old times 10/24/23. 🇺🇸
black & white loved the way folks dressed back then.
I worked at a chevron and a Exxon service station that was some good times and people and I’m glad I got to be apart of that life.
Yes, to think back. I worked first at Union 76 (became just 76), then later up the street at the Chevron. At 16-17 years old I was trusted enough to be given the keys and open up each morning. Fun Times. The 76 station was the 'Ford' camp and 3 blocks up the street the Chevron was the Chevrolet Camp. You can guess the rest.....
Sounds familiar lol full service was good even when ya got to know the regular ladies if ya know what I mean 😂
Great videos COLOR really brings them to life
Black and white is awesome. Thank you!
Fantastic video. I enjoyed the video as it is.
My grandfather had a grocery store for about 40 years. He was Postmaster from 1920 to 1955 , the year I was born. I wish I had pictures of him behind the counter in the store.
He sold Amoco gasoline beginning in 1924.
Our family is still doing business with the same Distributor.
Thank you for the video of stations from years ago.
Thanks for sharing the info about your family - that's awesome. I'm glad you liked the photos!
I loved seeing these in black and white ! I especially enjoyed the ones in Oregon , since that's where I',m from !
I prefer black and white photos...thanks nice work.
Thanks for the input - I appreciate it!
I believe it is best to keep photos like this in b&w. The car colors always seem to come out with a purple haze. If the focus is people then colorized looks better. Thanks for the work you do to create these.
We see in color...yes o color, thanks for the site.
I just recently found your channel, and I'm really enjoying it.
And I like the black and white, but either is fine.
Hey, @D.E. - I'm glad to have you here, and thanks for your input on the colorization!
Black and White is good 😊
👏👏👏I Enjoyed It 👍😉
Black & white. Nice pictures. I think I'll take my 30 A coupe out for a drive 😇🙏
Great photos!
I am happy to see them in black & white.
Thanks!
I worked in a Sinclair gas station,late 50's,early 60's. We had houseccharge accounts for regular customers.
Owner wore a uniform with a bow-tie every day.
He would go out to cars at the pump just to talk with his customers.
This was nice. I think that you could focus on the seasons better, because you have thoroughly covered gas stations. I'd like to see things related to Thanksgiving, Christmas, birthdays, prom, sports, camping, Winter, music, technology, historically significant moments, hot rods and 50's Doo-Wap, law enforcement, fire trucks, churches, movie production stills, and incredible places that are gone. Don't let me down, because I'm counting on youuuu!
Wow. Enjoyed that a lot. Getting gas is so routine we don’t even think about it, but these pix show a wonderful collage of time capsule moments of everyday life. I noted in some that the war was only a year away, or a couple of years in the past. Life for most was never the same, but all stayed the same at the service station. Also: loved the music; a great addition.
Black and White, as they were taken.
I'm 76 and recall the full service gas stations and regular gas for as low as 19.9 cents a gallon. America was mostly united, patriotism was high and the American Dream was a reality. Then along came the 60's.
I find them both equally sorrowful yet entertaining
Great description - I feel the same way!
Back in the '50's of my youth, there was a newspaper comic strip named "Gasoline Alley."
I'm only 63. As a kid in 1970 I could take a quarter into the store and purchase one 12 oz Coke. One box of cheese nips and piece of bazooka Joe bubblegum with a comic strip in the wrapper with such small print you squinted to read the comic. Gasoline in a small town in Hope ,Arizona was .17 cents per gallon. Dad earned about $450 per month.
Excellent video showcasing a snapshot of Americana. Black and White is the only way to go with these historic photos.
Thanks, @corvettesforever4619!
I realy like the colour ones, but to give a bit of both would be good.
Thanks - that may be the best solution...
I would rather see the photos in their original black and white. Colorizing detracts from the image. Thanks, great compilation.
You're very welcome - thanks for taking the time to comment!
The most recent amazing are the shifts fro b/w to color. They seem to spring to life.
Thanks!
Great video and thanks for sharing with us as many memories come flooding back of my years as a teenager in the 60's and I worked at a Texaco Station and American Oil while going to Junior College and the stations at that time were just the same and gas was 33 cents a gallon and Kerosene was only 15 cents a gallon and we pumped that from big ground tanks behind the station. We pumped their gas~cleaned all their windows~checked their tires if they wanted including the spare then checked the oil and water and after all that we gave them green stamps to boot. All us young men who loved cars then got jobs in one of the many stations in our small town and I really miss that life back then. Cars today make me ill and don't even want to mention EV's. I think we have really screwed up America with all this crap and I'm sort of glad my years are numbered on This Earth and I won't have to see what's coming for the Human Race~!!
Hi, either way, they show some beautiful memories. Automobiles had so much character back then. And how about those “career service station guys “……in uniform. As Bob Hope used to sing, “Thanks for the memories”. Northern Ontario
I really prefer them in color that is great the way that you're making it it brings it more to life thank you
Keep them coming, color or B & W is ok for me. I’m old enuf all Mom ever had was Grandma’s old Brownie box camera …… took good pictures if ya held still 😂
Amazing shots love the last one i hope you colour more.
Thanks, and thanks for your input! If you look closely at that shot, you may notice a bunch of floodlights in the parking lot. I researched the photo, and discovered that it was their grand opening in, so they were lighting it up for publicity and photos.
I would like to see them both ways - B&W and Color - like "The Golden Age of Trucking does it; each image starts out as B&W and transitions to color.
loved it all. thank you
I’m glad - thank you!
Judging from this video...there were no gas stations back east.😮
What a lovely Time Shot back to the Yesteryears to see the Nostalgic Cars that our Grandparents Drove. They have a Beauty distinct to the car styles of that time period. Thank you for doing the photo research and producing this video. The Black and White photos are fine with me.
Thanks for your comments, and for your take on the colorization - I appreciate it!
Thanks great stuff
I prefer both B & W and colorized. I'd like to see them side by side.
I'm good with the B&W photos. I grew up with alot of B&W film. The video was excellent (as is).
Thanks, @2quintly!
I thought Sam Drucker lived in Hooterville?? Great pictures
He don't look like Frank Cady though.!
Thank you for your work! I paused almost every photo to look at the details in more detail, it’s very interesting 👍
I’m so glad you like it! Thanks for letting me know!
Loving it, either way> "Both" colorized and B/W. Thanks!
I miss those simpler times and I'm only 53, definitely born in the Wrong ERA... Thank you for the memories. (can I go back now please)
Someday when I hit one of those billion dollar lotterys I'm going to open a Service Station. Gas attendants, service bays, vending machines, right down to the announcing bell. I wouldn't care if I made dollar one.
black and white really shows the times. ty
Great video….black and white.
Thanks, Lawrence!
Sharp images! I used to work in one of those on the graveyard shift.
4:34 smoking next to the pump!😁😁
I prefer the original BnW mostly because colorization still seems to do some odd discoloring on some of the renderings. Now, when the photo is originally in color that’s another story.
Black and white is fine, the colored ones never look as real, but sometimes it's all you can get. Thanks for the videos.
Thanks for watching!
All the people wearing uniforms, suits, dresses, ties, hats.
Yep, we’ve become a nation of disrespectful
slobs.
B&W or colorized, well, both really. If you could fade each B&W one into the colorized version that would be awesome!
B&W is classy.
Thanks for your input!
Sam Drucker , I gotta wonder if he did not get a Honorable mention in a sitcom ( Petticoat Junction ? ) given the timeline a kid from L.A who became a Hollywood writer may have well passed that gas station as a boy and the name $tuck ? DRUCKER'$
Interesting thought! It’s a nice, solid 1930’s name indeed.
In the 30s, and1940s up to early 1950s in Beaver Falls Pennsylvania, there existed a gas station (it might have been Sinclair), that in front of the building and between the pumps were racks with all kinds of dinnerware, most were made out of glass (Depression glass) and milk glass dishes with a slightly iridescent orange glaze on them, As a 4-year-old kid in 1949 until a few years later in the early 50s I was thrilled every time my mother or dad drove in to get gas. I wonder, were there other gas stations across the country in those years, selling and giving away glass tableware? I would love to see photos.
At 5:17 the two Chevies are 1951 chevies at the Humble grand opening
At 6.36 the “48 Olds” is actually a 1949 Olds.
BW I was hoping to see the old Sinclare station in my out-of-town Neiborhood, loved watching this.
I like Black and White . Please keep all photos original. Im old fashin. Born in the year !950
Black and white please! My wife and I were born in the early 50's and we remember a lot of these vehicles
Wonderful, oh my Good so nice Pictures!😊
Wonderful it makes no difference to see what life was like thanks
Wonderful - thank you!
Great video, thanks! Like the original black and white.
Black and white, please. B/W pics appear to be sharper and easier on the eye. The eye is not distracted by all the color therefore can better take in the content of the photo. IMHO 🤷♀️
Thanks for your input!
Excellent photos,colour would be more real✌
I tend to agree - thanks for your input!
The Chevy in the front is a 1951 Model year. Note the flat bar in the middle of the grille (no teeth) and the turn signals under the headlights. This is at the 5:14 time line showing the Humble gas station.
Love it. B&W
Great to see more old service stations an bw is my choice as some end up to much gray at the end it depends on the photo an what you like
Thanks for your input!
My Mom's maternal grandfather had a service station In Egg Harbor City, NJ, 100 years ago. We know the name and where it was, and we have phone numbers, but no pictures. On the other hand my Dad's uncle on his mother's side, had a service station in the town he grew up in. We have three 8 X 10 pictures of that from the 1920s or 30s- two inside and one outside. We also have invoices and a business card. I love this stuff.
Oh, on a different note, have you ever seen curbside gas pumps? In the 80s when we came to this area in NJ, the nearest town had curbside gas pumps in two different locations- one on the main street, and one just off the main street on a side street. In both situations there was just an office but no actual service station. I never took pictures and both places closed up and are long gone. (But there are stations on the highway that goes through town.)
Interesting! The only time I've ever seen curbside gas pumps is from super old photos. I had no idea that there was such a thing that lasted as late as the 1980s!
@@TheHistoryLounge It was so cool. I only wish I had taken pictures! I take a lot of pictures, but those were the days of film cameras.
My father told me of a place on Lebreton flats in Ottawa Ontario where in the 1920's or 30's gasoline was served directly from a railway tank car. At that time gasoline and fuel oil were delivered to Ottawa from Montreal by rail or up the Ottawa river by boat. A pipeline was built in 1952.
Black and White. Very good video👍
Both b&w and color.
Makes sense - thank you!
And there were no "Just Stop Oil" protestors...🙂
That's because people wouldn't of allowed it, PERIOD !!