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Jack Mendenhall's Richfield Service Station, Buellton, California. As some of you know Jack was an avid collector or Service Station memorabilia early on when no one else cared much about the stuff. Chances are good that most of you have something in your collection that passed through Jack's collection, especially if you are on this side of the country. His son Mark has cleaned up the collection and spruced up the displays and the place really looks great. The place I'm talking about is "Mendenhall's Musuem of Gas Pumps" which is located to the left of the service station in the photo above. In the days when the station was open the space was used as a wrecking storage yard for the cars they brought in with the AAA tow service they ran out of the garage.

2 shots of the same station from different angles.

DX station Shawnee Ok. 1931




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DX station Waterloo, Iowa 1936

Here's a kewl aerial shot of a High Speed Station.

Great architecture.



Later . . .

Jim

Wow guys!!! I love the pics. Keep em coming the pumps are amazing in some of the pics.

Wow wow wow wow!!!!!!

Time for someone to turn this into a book!!I would buy it in a heart beat.I have books on station photos but most of these I have not seen.I wish I had some to contribute,keep this one going.
Joe

Another Union station:

The Buellton Auto Court had a small Union 76 service station in the front on Highway 101. In 1949 when the highway was widened through Buellton they picked up the little station and moved it down the street. It stayed there until after a new freeway bypassed the town around 1964. It was finally torn down and now the lot is vacant.

Union oil bulk plant So. Cal.

Inside at the bulk plant

Here is a couple of Hi-Speed Building pictures..before and after. Sorry for the first one it was scanned out of a magazine. I know who has it..but that is a different story!

Randy

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Now...all gone.



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Diamond service station Eureka, Ill. 1931

Diamond service station Inwood, Iowa 1936