One picture each day. In reverse order.
April 19, 2009 Standard Station
Continuing my series on Route 66. This is called the Standard Sinclair Gas Station in Odell, Illinois. Built in 1932, it operated until 1975. It has been impressively restored. I wasn't sure how best to give you the sense of this place so I decided to put four images together. Note the old gas pump. The amount you wanted to purchase was pumped into the glass chamber and then gravity put it through the hose into your car. We were told that the road in front of this station had bumper to bumper traffic in the summer. So congested that the town built a tunnel under the road to get people to the large church on the West side of the road.
Today is my Dad's birthday. He's been gone a long time but even after all these years I miss being able to share things like this with him. I'm dedicating today's image to my Dad in remembrance of all those times he drove us down Route 66. Who knows, maybe we got gas here 50 years ago.
Continuing my series on Route 66. This is called the Standard Sinclair Gas Station in Odell, Illinois. Built in 1932, it operated until 1975. It has been impressively restored. I wasn't sure how best to give you the sense of this place so I decided to put four images together. Note the old gas pump. The amount you wanted to purchase was pumped into the glass chamber and then gravity put it through the hose into your car. We were told that the road in front of this station had bumper to bumper traffic in the summer. So congested that the town built a tunnel under the road to get people to the large church on the West side of the road.
Today is my Dad's birthday. He's been gone a long time but even after all these years I miss being able to share things like this with him. I'm dedicating today's image to my Dad in remembrance of all those times he drove us down Route 66. Who knows, maybe we got gas here 50 years ago.
April 19, 2009 Standard Station
Continuing my series on Route 66. This is called the Standard Sinclair Gas Station in Odell, Illinois. Built in 1932, it operated until 1975. It has been impressively restored. I wasn't sure how best to give you the sense of this place so I decided to put four images together. Note the old gas pump. The amount you wanted to purchase was pumped into the glass chamber and then gravity put it through the hose into your car. We were told that the road in front of this station had bumper to bumper traffic in the summer. So congested that the town built a tunnel under the road to get people to the large church on the West side of the road.
Today is my Dad's birthday. He's been gone a long time but even after all these years I miss being able to share things like this with him. I'm dedicating today's image to my Dad in remembrance of all those times he drove us down Route 66. Who knows, maybe we got gas here 50 years ago.
Continuing my series on Route 66. This is called the Standard Sinclair Gas Station in Odell, Illinois. Built in 1932, it operated until 1975. It has been impressively restored. I wasn't sure how best to give you the sense of this place so I decided to put four images together. Note the old gas pump. The amount you wanted to purchase was pumped into the glass chamber and then gravity put it through the hose into your car. We were told that the road in front of this station had bumper to bumper traffic in the summer. So congested that the town built a tunnel under the road to get people to the large church on the West side of the road.
Today is my Dad's birthday. He's been gone a long time but even after all these years I miss being able to share things like this with him. I'm dedicating today's image to my Dad in remembrance of all those times he drove us down Route 66. Who knows, maybe we got gas here 50 years ago.
