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TEXAS
GAS STATIONS"Ethyl
Doesn't Live Here Anymore" |
| Conoco
Station - Friendship
Submerged Ghost Town in
Williamson County - Old Photos
Three
Filling Stations:
Although all three buildings provided the same basic
needs of the motorist, separately, they could be prime examples of “Modest,” “Utilitarian”
and “Grandiose” gas stations. |
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Midday
at the Oasis
"Having never
pumped a pint, let alone a gallon of gasoline, this station-that-never-was has
become our symbol for a particular period in Texas history." |
Old
Gas Stations In Texas |
“Dollars
Worth of Gas. Please” by Nolan Maxie
My earliest and fondest recollection
of a brand new vehicle in my life was in 1946. I was seven years old...The
Big Waukesha Engine by N. Ray Maxie
How it came close to killing my Dad
Travelers
forced to siphon by Delbert Trew
This is not the first time fuel prices
spawned drastic measures. There was a time when 38-cent per gallon gas brought
out the worst in travelers... Energy
Policy by Perry Peary
Currently there is a commercial running on television
that shows how this country has become dependent upon foreign oil to keep us going.
The man behind the scene advocates us using more natural gas as well as wind power.
He goes on to show how our dependence has grown over the past thirty or forty
years..Cheap
Gasoline; Oil and Gas by N. Ray Maxie
Maybe we all can agree that gasoline
is on the front burner right now; so to speak. Prices are at historically high
levels... For those of us in this nation having learned how to be frugal, now
is the time to practice it... The
Corn is as High as an Elephant's Eye by Maggie Van Ostrand
Politics has
again reared its ugly head, and this time, the platform is "Corn produces ethanol
and ethanol fuels automobiles!"... The
first "over water" oil well by Bob Bowman
In the
early l900s, 27-year-old Walter B. Pyron, of Blossom, Texas, a production foreman
for Guffy Oil Company, noticed gas bubbles rising from Caddo Lake...Rising
Gas Prices by Perry Peary
"..We’ve known that our dependency on foreign
oil has been going up for the past twenty years and not one of the administrations;
both republican and democratic have chosen to do anything about it. We just stick
our collective heads in the sand and act as if there isn’t anything wrong and
that all will be ok....""High
Pockets" and a Near Death Experience by N. Ray Maxie
"My father was
a pumper in the East Texas oil fields for a small oil company that had come into
the area and bought up many less than 'gusher' oil wells. Some oil people soon
began to call those wells, 'strippers'..."
Oil Field Humor by Fred B. McKinley
Who says that oil, wool—and sheep
manure don’t mix?Bet-A-Million
Gates by Archie P. McDonald
John Warne Gates, a native of Winfield, Illinois,
became associated with three of Texas’ most important items: barbed wire, railroads,
and oil.Lyne
Taliaferro Barret by Archie P. McDonald
Few East Texans remember Lyne
Taliaferro Barret, but they should: Barret drilled the first oil well in Texas.Gasoline
Prices by Perry Peary | |
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