In August 2019, Jimmy Rosen, owner of Old Sled Works Antiques in Duncannon, was given a box of old film negatives and prints by a former Atlantic Refining Co. employee and friend, Bob Shultz. The ...
Nobody’s happy to be at a gas station, but maybe that’s a recent development of society. Back in the day, gas stations were a nice, relaxing break. You could unwind, have somebody else pump your gas, ...
Everyone knows how modern-day gas stations work. You pull up, get out of your car, pump gas, pay, and leave. You might pick up a cheap, no-frills snack and buy a lottery ticket from the attached ...
It's rare to get a retail history lesson from a cable drama, but when the D.C.-based "House of Cards" set a scene in Las Vegas, the camera panned across a remnant of a bygone Minneapolis retail chain: ...
LOGAN, Utah — Gas stations are embedded in our urban and rural landscapes, symbols of the automobile's influence on 20th century America. But they aren’t all relics of a bygone era. One old gas ...
As gas stations lurch toward obsolescence in the age of electric vehicles, the land they use is becoming a widely distributed real estate development opportunity. One project in Seattle shows how ...
The red Flying Pegasus, the iconic Mobil Oil Co. trademark and a symbol of America's 20th Century love affair with the automobile, is returning to Grand Forks. It will be perched along South Belmont ...