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To measure the amount of gas being sold, gasoline was first pumped up into the glass container of this old time gas pump. Both the customer and the attendant could see how much was coming down. Old timers will remember that gas started out at a dime a gallon back then. By the time gas prices had risen to three dimes a gallon a DYE-COLORED gas was being sold to farmers for use in their tractors. It was up to a dime cheaper per gallon, but woe unto the one that got caught using dye-colored gas in a road vehicle! All the time I was growing up I only heard of one farmer being stopped and his gas tank explored. He was fuming at the stop, but innocent. The oil dispenser just to the right of the gas pump would deliver exactly a quart, more or less, when the attendant made a complete cycle. Customers could hear a CLICK when the end of the cycle was reached. Oil was later sold in pre-measured round quart containers. This was more convenient for everyone, but the old timey oil dispenser did not go away. Instead it was moved to the back of the station and used for holding BULK oil. One source of bulk oil was the drippings from the quart cans, after they were empty. This meant the oil was almost free to the station owners. Therefore they would sell the bulk oil for half price to those poor souls whose cars were streaming oil out almost as fast as you could put it in. Many people would buy it by the gallon. Used oil was collected too. Sprinkled on country roads it would keep the dust down. Some farmers used it to keep grass down on the ditch banks too. |
Behind the gas and oil pumps, one the left, are a string of
realistic stores.
Each one is stocked as it might have been on a sales day back there in
the good old days.
Of course, no store was complete
without its very own Coke box.
The bottles were immersed in water
and came out dripping wet.
Back then, nobody minded.
We thought it was wonderful
to get that much wet for just one nickel a bottle.
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