Don Coatney Posted April 26, 2016 Report Share Posted April 26, 2016 Follow this link http://hipspics.freewebspace.com/gas/gas.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Neon Posted April 26, 2016 Report Share Posted April 26, 2016 Nope. Nothing new about using corn for fuel. Robert Mitchum explained it all well in Thunder Road. I'm not transporting illegal licquor, officer. I'm just out for a drive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DonaldSmith Posted April 26, 2016 Report Share Posted April 26, 2016 About halfway down the photos is a Shell station, with a Pontiac wagon and aluminum camper in front of it. This station is a dead ringer for the gas station on exhibit on the grounds of the Gilmore Car Museum outside Hickory Corners, Michigan, near Battle Creek and Kalamazoo. Maybe it is that station, and the photo could have been taken yesterday. The Gilmore Car Museum is a large field with barns reconstructed from around the country, a vintage diner, the Shell station, and various car club buildings. We had the 2015 National DeSoto Club show there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greg g Posted April 26, 2016 Report Share Posted April 26, 2016 (edited) Took a trip last Friday to Buffalo. Visited a Frank Lloyd Wright designed houseand then stopped at the Buffalo Transportation Museum. The museum has a replica of a gas station concept designed by FLW. They aquired the plans forthe station from the Wright design studio and built it full scale inside their new building. Some features of the station included large fuel storage tanks as part of the roofs over the bays. A travelers lounge with fireplace, two restrooms, attendents lodgings in the basement with fireplace, two copper clad towers rising about 35feet above the station, and gravity feed glass metering and dispensing containers. City water pressure in a recieving bladder assembly pushed the gas from ground level to the storage tanks, and gravity did the rest. The facility was designed as a concept for Tydol gasoline but there is no record they ever purchased or built the design. Probably smart withthe overhead storage and the two 40 foot lightning rods, not to mention the open flame fireplaces... Edited April 26, 2016 by greg g Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Neon Posted April 26, 2016 Report Share Posted April 26, 2016 https://www.tripadvisor.com/Attraction_Review-g42961-d6932218-Reviews-The_R_W_Lindholm_Service_Station_by_Frank_Lloyd_Wright-Cloquet_Minnesota.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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