OT Old Gas station photo

I love old photos and this one has a lot going on in it. It must be from the teens or early twenties. The price of gas was 23 cents a gallon and a guy is filling up his Model T. There is a tanker on a treasle above the station, and a tank truck heading out for a delivery. I think the propieter is on the side and had a coin changer attached to his belt.

$0.23 per gallon would have been fairly high priced gasoline in the era of the model T Ford. I can remember buying it for $0.25 in the late '60s because of the gas wars. Seems like $0.30 per gallon was the prevalant price.

Thanks for the neat picture, I love old gas station memories when I was a kid in Loogootee, Martin County, Indiana. The the DX Mobil Station attendants (the 2 owners, Tater Summers and John Bowen) wore blue cotton work shirts and dark blue bow ties and of course, checked your oil and performed light mechanical repairs, they were SERVICE STATIONS. The Gulf dealer (Burch's) across the road had wooden coke cartons where we all sat and BS'ed after we returned Sat nights from the Calumet and Rustic Dance Halls in Jasper. Then there were the big glass bottles for dispensing oil. The local city barbers Bob and Brownie cut hair for fifty cents (and raised families and put kids through college) but Harry Butcher out in the country only charged a quarter...

During a gas war in Evansville Indiana in the mid/late sixties the cheapest gas I bought personally (old enough to drive then) was 18.9.

We didnt have cell phones or OSHA or Child Protective Services (played outside and came home for supper or when dark) and we prayed in school and stood for the Pledge of Alliegance including One Nation under God.

So the Liberals and Progressives can brag all they want but no one can tell me those werent better times, especially as far as morals and religion, family values and patriotism was concerned

John T Olddddddd Conservative Christian Fuddy Duddy and proud of it

According to dollartime.com 23 cents in 1922 would equal $3.00 a gallon now and 23 cents would have been $4.00 a gallon in 1918. My Granddad used to talk about how high every thing got during World War 1.

Amen,John T,we also didn't have Welfare, external_linkcare and everyone expecting the Government to take care of them. We had a country doctor that made house calls, delivered babies and friends and neighbors that looked out for and helped each other.That WAS the good old days.

Geez,that picture could morph in to the Pacific Pride commercial fueling station at the corner of US127 and State Road just south of St Louis Michigan SO darned easy. It's tucked back in next to the freeway by the overpass just like that one is with the railroad tracks. Funny how things can strike dejavu.

I remember pumping gas at a Mom & Pop station

$0.24 & $0.28 and on weekends $0.23 & $0.26 in late 50's.

Price really went up when they took the lead out.

John T are you home yet??? Also did you know a lady teacher named Evelyn Hibberd from Loogootee?

Yep Im home again in Indiana, no I didnt know her, I had Ira Clark for science, but hey that was like 50 yrs ago

OLD John T

North of Frankenmuth,MI there is a gas station set up like the old ones were, I always wonder how many pull in to gas up.

Enjoy the old picture as it brings out many memories My father milked and bottled milk and delivered it door to door. It was amazing how long a dollar worth of gas lasted. Back in those days the barter system was in full effect. He and diferent customers did a lot of it. Milk for Gas, milk for haircut. Milk for labor. I, as a young kid, Saturday night the whole family would load up and go to town if i needed a hair cut mom would say "Go get a haircut". I would walk into the shop and Jim Harper would greet me and I would climb up in the chair where he had placed a board across the arms to raise me up. When he was done I would get down and walk out the door. Every else had to pay. My mother raised huge flocks of geese and ducks for the holiday. Dad alway delivered the dressed poultry at Christmas time. None of his customers went without poultry for the holiday season.
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Neat photo indeed.

If you guys are interested in old photos, here's some entertainment for you.

http://www.shorpy.com/

Not many old tractor photos but some interesting stuff for sure. He adds stuff daily and I thought I had seen just about every one of them.

I'm not sure just when my dad started using a tractor on a regular basis, but he and one or two others used to buy a rail car of gasoline at a time in order to save money. I tend to recall him telling of buying it for 1½¢ or 2¢ per gallon. They only had a couple of days to empty the car before it was returned.

Among old documents I discovered that he and his sister had obtained a siding permit from the railroad. I don't know if that meant they could use an existing siding or just what it meant. Her husband was a railroad depot agent and probably helped to obtain the permit.

I do remember that my dad's first tractor was a Fordson.

On a slightly different note--I have a 1920s or 1930s account book for a service station. Many of the entries for sales were labeled "tourist" instead of cash sale.

When my wife & I were dating in the early 60's gad was about .26-.29, ecept in Ft. Wayne, IN where they always had a gas war some where. I bought it for 17.9 a couple of times. It took about $1.50 to drive my old Buick from Angola, IN to Ft. Wayne and back.

Look on the bottom left side of the picture, and read what it says. You are right. The Shorpy website has some neat photos.

Gas here was .25 back in 1972-73.

rrlund,

What town does the 127 yard sale extend to in Michigan? We have never made it all the way across Tennessee yet but this year I was thinking about starting on the Northern end or maybe in Ohio. Thanks.

ok, now we know what the car is , but who can id the truck, i think posibly a sampson

I remember being in Missouri and dad talking about the price of gas and I told him "it's 5 cents over there" he looked and said no that's diesel.

Jim