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Monday, February 18, 2013

City Pharmacy Sells Gasoline?

Embrace the Past...

Did you know the first places to sell gasoline/petrol were pharmacies as a side business? That's right, pharmacies! The city pharmacy in Wiesloch, Germany was the location of the first gas/petrol station. In 1888, Bertha Benz refilled the tank of the first automobile on its maiden trip from Mannheim to Pforaheim.

Here are just a few as we step back in time...






 See these in larger versions plus more @ http://hipspics.freewebspace.com/gas/gas.html

Did you know?

A facility which sells fuel and usually lubricants for motor vehicles is known as... 

~filling station, fueling station, garage, gasbar (Canada), 
~gas station (United States and Canada), 
~petrol bunk or petrol pump (India),  
~petrol garage, petrol kiosk (Singapore), 
~petrol station (United Kingdom, Ireland, Malaysia and Hong Kong),  
~service station, or servo (Australia)

What do you remember about the old gas stations? Do you recall the "full service" stations?

4 comments:

  1. Great photos from the past. I must confess that I do recall the full service stations. What a luxury that seems now!

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  2. I do remember the full service stations! Loved them. I'd always make faces at the guy cleaning the windows.
    Watching the first 'Back to the Future' movie reminded me. The car drove over the signal cable and four men came running out to serve the customer. I pointed and said, "I remember that!"

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  3. Thank you for helping us to take a walk back in time! Sometimes you just don't know why you are sad or what really is the matter until you take a walk back and see what you saw, say what you said, and then you know why you are sad. Once you know why you are sad, as you can now see what you were missing, you can come back forward and then you know why you are sad, and can once again surge on ahead. It is like mopping the floor and then realizing that you missed a spot, and so you go back over to that spot, and mop it too, and then you know you have done your job and done it well! Finished!!! Louise

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