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Day 114 - Old Gas Stations

9/16/2016

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This sweet old gas station doesn't have a happy history, but the image is soothing for some reason.  The Magnolia/Mobile Service station was built in the 1920's about the time when Little Rock High School was built across the street. It became a temporary office during the segregation crisis in 1957.  Toady it looks peaceful and sweet, like stations I remember still serving our car when I was a kid.  I loved hearing the car tires make the "ding" that called the attendant, who said, "Fill 'er up?"  I loved watching the windows being washed and the oil being checked.  I remember playing "gas station" with my little brother at home!
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Gas Station Memories:  The Sinclair dinosaur statue.... As a kid, pumping my Schwinn bike tires...  Episodes of Andy Griffith with gas station scenes... And the modern Pop's Station on Route 66 in Arcadia, OK, with 700 kinds of pop and a 66-foot soda bottle! 
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11/7/2019 03:38:13 pm

I really do admire all of these all gas stations that you took photos of. I know that it is not the same as it was in the past. The nostalgic feeling that these photos gave me is just insane. I just want to go back to the past and enjoy the much more simpler life. I wish that we can go back to the past and just chill and relax. This society is a lot more toxic, and it is depressing.

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Beth
11/7/2019 03:44:19 pm

Yep! I wouldn't mind escaping back to the days of old fashioned gas stations right now!

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