And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Thinking with my brain (and not my heart), that "service station" might have worked in Florida or in So California but not in most of the northern regions of this once-great nation.
When things had style…
ReplyDeleteI would love to pick a few cars off of this cover to have now.
ReplyDeleteI’d love to have one of those pumps
ReplyDeleteI would describe them as looking more like drop tanks. Either way, that place looks awesome.
ReplyDeleteI was thinking napalm canisters, but yeah, drop tanks has a certain symmetry to it, being a service station and all...
DeleteMike in Canada
I worked at a Shell station in 1972 and enjoyed every minute of it.
ReplyDelete'64 Caddy DeVille. Mercury on the right.
ReplyDeleteI would pay cash money to get one of those pumps, and have Rick Dale restore it to its Space Age pristine glory.
ReplyDeleteI'd like to have one too, maybe 2 (matched set) but I'd never let Dale and his band of misfits get close to it.
DeleteTheir exhibit at the NY World's Fair was pretty cool IIRC. Matter of fact, General Motors' was as well. Good times!
ReplyDeleteYou can see the pumps in action starting at 2:27
ReplyDeletehttps://archive.org/details/0701_Sinclair_at_the_Worlds_Fair
That was an expensive magazine at that time.
ReplyDeleteThinking with my brain (and not my heart), that "service station" might have worked in Florida or in So California but not in most of the northern regions of this once-great nation.
ReplyDeleteWho are Red & Jerry Smith from Lake Wales? I bet that would be a better story.
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