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As a result of a price-cutting war at Hollywood's largest gas station, gasoline sells for 2 cents a gallon. The gas price is even lower than the 3 cent per gallon tax. Thousounds of autos and thier owners fought for the chance to fill their tanks with teh low-priced gas with police brought in to maintain order.
Photographed 1990 - 2001 in Pilar, New Mexico.
The old gas station at the Oil Center in Texas taken in 1985.
Original Caption - Gas station with horse drawn delivery truck.
Hawaii.
- A filling station with vintage pumps and equipment is part of the Agriculture and Forestry Museum in Jackson, Mississippi.
Original Caption: 8/3/1941- New York - An automobile has just been gased up before the seven PM closing of gas stations in compliance with the Governmental Conservation Edict, but the car's owner, fearful that he may run our of fuel before seven the next morning, has a spare can filled at a New Yourk City gas station August 3rd. Only owners of commercial vehicles will be able to buy gas between the hours forbidden to pleasure car owners.
California -
Children stand next to a car at a newly-built store and
service center typical of new shacktown communitites.
Riverbank, San Joaquin Valley, California. April 9, 1940.
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1926
Mountains over Business District of Patman, Arizona - Cars line the street in front of Dodge Bros. Service Statin and a hotel in the mountainside town of Patman, Arizona in the 1910's.
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