Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 745
EAN num: 9780760310649
ISBN number: 0760310645
Label: MBI
Manufacturer: MBI
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 96
Printing Date: May 11, 2002
Publishing house: MBI
Sale Popularity Level: 609364
Studio: MBI
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Once an integral part of daily American life, the traditional full-service gas station has given way to sterile convenience stores with automated, pay-at-the-pump service. Fortunately, memories of old service stations live on in this entertaining book filled with original period colour images, as well as modern colour shots of surviving filling stations. Readers will witness eccentric and wacky station styles, including airplanes, teepees, windmills, petrified trees, railroad tanks cars, icebergs, and more. Author Tim Steil also examines the role of the automobile and filling station in American society, from the earliest days in the 1910s through the end of the service station era in the 1970s.
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Although this coffee table book has photos, it is the short stories about the abandoned gas stations that make the book worthwhile.
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