"Mitchell Holman" wrote:

patricia@hotmales wrote:

This photo is of a historic item not seen in decades, Notice the
employees
in the front: that makes this one of the extinct "Service Stations".

Pretty small gas station for 19 people to work in, no?

Not if it's everyone on the payroll. I had a summer job in a
full-service Texaco station some thirty years ago. Manager,
two mechanics, and enough attendants to pump gas, wash
windows, check-yer-oil-sir?, and do minor things like sell
new tires and take care of lube-oil-filter jobs. Plus, I'm
guessing, the ladies in the picture's front row either ran the
cash register or operated a small coffee shop.

--Bill Thompson