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Abandoned Gas Stations

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DaveC

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or as they were called back when gasoline was a nickel, filling stations.

So in Alexander I found that one of my first and favorites is still there. The last picture I took of it I used in my ADVrider avatar.
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Another favorite is this station, I am working on locating an original. I am betting it was a Sinclair Station. The dinosuar logo goes with the fossils and petrified wood that the entire structure is made from. Would love to save or resurect this building.
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Back in '07 my son and I stopped by this restored wooden station.
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Looks cool, Dave. I guess we can use this thread to post all the old filling stations we come by. Texas has a lot of abandoned buildings, should be interesting.
 
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there is a cool one north of thorndale by the San Garriel north of Appache pass. I'm a Hippo too.
 
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I've always thought an old retro gas station would be a cool place to live. Wife 'aint having 'nuttin to do with that thought though.....

Where is the petrified wood one located?



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I find some of them fascinating, what I also like is when other uses are found for those old stations like the motorcycle museum outside on Route 66 OKC and an ice cream stand in a 50's era steel panel gas station in Minnesota. There is an old rock one in similar condition on Route 66 near the Round Barn in Arcadia, Oklahoma.
 
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Waelder Texas, Gonzales County. My Grandmother lived her for almost a hundred years. This is an old car dealer next door to an abandoned gas station. I vaguely remember when these were active businesses.

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When I read the title of thread, I thought someone was commanding us to stop using gas stations. :rofl:
 
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M38A1 said:
I've always thought an old retro gas station would be a cool place to live. Wife 'aint having 'nuttin to do with that thought though.....

Where is the petrified wood one located?



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US281 as you enter Hamilton from the South. It well be on your left.:rider:
 
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Great pictures so far. I am hoping that a lot more people jump on this thread.
 
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DaveC said:
US281 as you enter Hamilton from the South. It well be on your left.:rider:
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I've looked at that station everytime I've passed it and thought it would be nice to know the history of it. I even stopped one time and took some pictures and looked around.
Actually, wouldn't it be nice to be able to save every building like this?
 
Great thread. I have some contributions I'll post later. Visiting and photographing these kinds of places is one of my favorite things to do on a motorcycle.
 
A pretend station but I thought it was cool although it no longer exists.

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Makes me wish I woulda taken a pic of one this Saturday that had $1.00 (or thereabouts) gas on the sign. Now I'm on a mission...
 
Not exactly a Gas Station, but an abandoned general store in East Texas:
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Where Mobil Regular is still 37 cents a gallon:
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The first, third and forth pictures are all in San Gabriel, which is just north of Thorndale. The second one is in Walburg.
 
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