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Take a drive down memory lane with this rare collection of gasoline station photographs from both public and private collections, touring a much simpler time in American history. Since its inception in the early 1900s, the service station has been an icon of the American roadside and a catalyst of our childhood memories. Included is a brief history of the development of the gasoline station in the United States and details about many of the companies which punctuated the roadsides with their buildings, including the Standard companies, Cities, Mobil, Phillips, Gulf, Shell, Texaco, and Conoco. Filled with over 500 black and white photos, Roadside Memories captures the essence of American life over the first seventy years of this century. Captions provide station location and era identification. These nostalgic photos aid both the collector and historian interested filling up on high-grade service station pumps, classic advertising, architecture, and classic automobiles of the 1920s-70s.
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Hugo Zapata
reviewed Roadside Memories: A Collection of Vintage Gas Station Photographs on April 25, 2010
Roadside Memories: A Collection of Vintage Gas Station Photographs
I have found that I love to read historical non-fiction books about great building related projects(see my reviews of: Brunelleschi's Dome; Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling) and then traveling to see the structures in person. As with these others, I loved the historical background, historical context, the personalities, interrelationships, and competition of egos that went into the great race to build the worlds tallest buildings that in the process establish New York as the greatest city on Earth all during the run up to the Great Depression. Whether you have been, plan to, or never get to New York to stand in the shadows, marvel from within, and gaze from the tops of these gargantuan structures: you cannot hope to ever appreciate the epic coalescence of the powerful forces of wills, creativity, labor, money, technologies, materials, and the historical backdrop upon which it all happened without doing the research yourself, or simply reading and enjoying this well written account of their birth.
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