Attendant pouring oil into a white car at a roadside gas station – Historic Reproduction
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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This rare historic image captures Attendant pouring oil into a white car at a roadside gas station in remarkable detail. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
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Attendant pouring oil into a white car at a roadside gas station
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A roadside attendant in a crisp uniform tips a can of oil into the engine of a white car, a scene that captures the self-service-free days of American motoring. Full-service stations like this one were a fixture along routes such as the Blue Ridge Parkway, where drivers wound through the mountains of Virginia and North Carolina and often relied on a station attendant to check the oil, clean the windshield and fill the tank. The parkway, begun in the 1930s as a New Deal-era scenic route, drew steady traffic from motorists who needed these stops for the long, slow climb along the ridgelines.
| Original scan | 4,294 × 3,432 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | 345932pu |
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