Sometimes, Gas Stations Are Beautiful

[lapucelle]

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/most-beautiful-gas-station-design

[htuttle]

1. I worked in gas stations all though college -- the old-time, full service kind

Like Goober worked at. "Check your oil, maam?" (which always seemed a bit like an innuendo to me...).

There's not a lot to distinguish one gas station from another. The price difference is usually pennies apart, most gas is the same (even more so than most gas station chains would have you believe -- it literally comes from the same tanks at the same terminals, then is mixed with additives in some cases).

So an eye catching gas station makes a difference. Which is why you see more effort going into gas station architecture than restaurants or retail store architecture.

At least that's htuttle's theory on why gas stations look so weird sometimes.

[lapucelle]

5. On my first family road trip when I was a little girl,

my mom told my dad to look for a gas station with a "rest room". I had never heard that term, so I pictured fainting couches and lace curtains. (Would have been a perfect place for...um..."checking the oil".)

Boy, was I disappointed.

[brer cat]

2. very cool!

[lapucelle]

3. It seems like so many things used to be cooler.

[brer cat]

4. Including our pResident? lol

[Older Than I Look]

6. Frank Lloyd Wright

http://www.pierce-arrow.com/frank-lloyd-wright-filling-station

[lapucelle]

8. WOW!

How did they miss that one in the article?

[Aristus]

7. Love the B-17!

Here's my favorite image of a gas station, courtesy of Edward Hopper:

[lapucelle]

9. That's beautiful

It's the first time I've seen this. (When I searched, I got to type "gas hopper" )

https://www.moma.org/collection/works/80000

[Kaleva]

10. I got to fly in a B-17 some years ago.

[Historic NY]

11. Lacey Lady is ungoing restoration to flying condition

http://www.b17alliance.com/