Re: gas on film

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Posted by Jerrybear on January 22, 2000 at 23:51:12:

In Reply to: gas on film posted by Vern Johnson on January 17, 2000 at 00:26:37:

In "Alice's Restaurant," the movie based on the Arlo Guthrie song and starring Arlo, there is a scene where Arlo is hitchhiking and gets dropped off in front of a classic 50s/60s era Gulf station. This is the kind with the older style Gulf logo with the solid orange disc and all capital letters.

Another hippie movie that probably has a lot of gas stations in it would be the footage of Ken Kesey and the Merry Prankster's bus trips. I am not sure if any of this film has been shown or released to the public, though. I know that in Tom Wolfe's book "The Electric Kool Aid Acid Test" he mentions gas stations at several points. One that I can think of off hand is that the Pranksters did not have a functioning restroom in the San Francisco building that was their hangout, so they had to walk to a Shell station to use the facilities.

As far as other literary references to gas stations (yeaj, I know I am straying a bit off the exact topic) I know there are lots in the Beat Generation works. They were very often "on the road," to borrow a title from one of Jack Kerouac's novels. I know that Allen Ginsberg refers in one of his poems to a "Sinclair dinosaur advertisment, glowing green..." or something like that. I also recall a mention of Mobil's Pegasus in one of Ginsberg's road poems.

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: In "Alice's Restaurant," the movie based on the Arlo Guthrie song and starring Arlo, there is a scene where Arlo is hitchhiking and gets dropped off in front of a classic 50s/60s era Gulf station. This is the kind with the older style Gulf logo with the solid orange disc and all capital letters. 

: Another hippie movie that probably has a lot of gas stations in it would be the footage of Ken Kesey and the Merry Prankster's bus trips. I am not sure if any of this film has been shown or released to the public, though. I know that in Tom Wolfe's book "The Electric Kool Aid Acid Test" he mentions gas stations at several points. One that I can think of off hand is that the Pranksters did not have a functioning restroom in the San Francisco building that was their hangout, so they had to walk to a Shell station to use the facilities. 

: As far as other literary references to gas stations (yeaj, I know I am straying a bit off the exact topic) I know there are lots in the Beat Generation works. They were very often "on the road," to borrow a title from one of Jack Kerouac's novels. I know that Allen Ginsberg refers in one of his poems to a "Sinclair dinosaur advertisment, glowing green..." or something like that. I also recall a mention of Mobil's Pegasus in one of Ginsberg's road poems.



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