Along The Way
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Yesteryear's Gas Station
I always enjoy coming across vintage service stations such as the one I shot the photo of recently, although I suspect it will be bulldozed to make room for something else.
Although today's service station provides you with fuel for your car, the majority of service stations today have shifted from servicing cars to providing more services for the people driving them.
Today the service stations you come across seem to have developed into meal destinations instead of simply providing a roadside stop while on the way to somewhere else for fuel, a restroom and possibly oil or windshield washer fluid.
It's possible that it's been so long since gas stations fed cars more than the people that the current generation of young drivers don't even realize how different the services they used to offer were. It gives those of us who remember the days of a friendly attendant cleaning the windshield and checking the oil the opportunity to get nostalgic.
