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GREAT video Petroholic thanks for sharing.
Fun to read the comments that people posted on youtube.
Does anybody know what make of truck the Tank Wagon was?
Don't think I've ever seen that vintage of a truck with suicide doors.

I remember using a hand saw!

Did anyone else think that guy fiddling with the inside of the gas pumps look familiar?

I was thinking about the lack of cherry picker lifts with that guy shimmying up those pipes.

And didn't they use counterweights on cement trucks back then? I could see the tires up on a slope, but that looked like pretty level ground.

I was waiting to see the full shot of the station from the distance in the end and all they showed (unless I missed it) was the guy coming in for gas. Do you have any pic's of the final station?

You ever try 2" rigid. LMAO

Neat Video, Thnks

I'm surprised no one mentioned the stain glass in the gable end.

One time in 1978 when I first started at a plumbing shop the owner had me cleaning around the shop and said lets thread a piece of 6 inch galv pipe with the old hand threader so you can say you have done it. The shop had been there since the 30's and the owner was in his 80's so he had every tool . we took the yoke and long spindle and it took me about an hour to work the 4 ft ratchet and yoke to turn the big die head to make 13 threads on the pipe.

Looks like the station being built is in or around Mattoon, Illinois. Contractor's sign at 9:45 shows the location.

I wonder if the building is still there.

That was the A Frame Boom truck setting the I Beams over bay area.

I guess what impressed me was you didn't see any foreign cars in that video. Only things made in the USA. If I remember correctly in 1953 the unemployment was low. Probably the station attendant was the lowest paid person in the video everybody else was probably paid a working wage and also there was very few college educated people in it. Mitch

Well if we are going there my thoughts were you did not have any south of the border. People there like we deal with every day on construction sites