Post by BuckSkin on Feb 14, 2017 9:15:11 GMT
My father operated this business from his discharge from the Korean War until the late 1980s
The 1952 Ford dates the photo to sometime later than 1952; the main gas pumps were changed to a different style in the late sixties.
This is the only known photo we have and the photo itself has an interesting history; a few years ago, the county PVA (Property Valuation Administrator or tax assessor if you will) said he found this photo in a bunch of old records that were being discarded and thought we might be interested in it; the two Xs across the photo denote that the building no longer exists on the property.
The old photo was in very poor condition and was covered with black splotchy mildew, probably from years of being in the humid damp confines of the old courthouse basement.
My work is by no means perfect, but I don't think I hurt it any.
Here is what I had to work with :
and here is my attempt at rescue:
It is hard to believe that in all the many years we lived in a house-trailer behind the building and I was born within 300 yards of the place and grew up there, that this is the only photograph we have.
By the way, note the two pumps on the left of the photo, one is Kerosene and the other is Coal Oil; and, we sold quite a bit of both as many in our community were still without electricity and used these products in their "coal oil" lamps; the Kerosene was for the more well-to-do; it cost more but yielded a much brighter light and did not smoke up the globes so badly; the less-well-to-do (the majority of the community) had to settle for the less expensive coal oil.
Thanks for looking.
The 1952 Ford dates the photo to sometime later than 1952; the main gas pumps were changed to a different style in the late sixties.
This is the only known photo we have and the photo itself has an interesting history; a few years ago, the county PVA (Property Valuation Administrator or tax assessor if you will) said he found this photo in a bunch of old records that were being discarded and thought we might be interested in it; the two Xs across the photo denote that the building no longer exists on the property.
The old photo was in very poor condition and was covered with black splotchy mildew, probably from years of being in the humid damp confines of the old courthouse basement.
My work is by no means perfect, but I don't think I hurt it any.
Here is what I had to work with :
and here is my attempt at rescue:
It is hard to believe that in all the many years we lived in a house-trailer behind the building and I was born within 300 yards of the place and grew up there, that this is the only photograph we have.
By the way, note the two pumps on the left of the photo, one is Kerosene and the other is Coal Oil; and, we sold quite a bit of both as many in our community were still without electricity and used these products in their "coal oil" lamps; the Kerosene was for the more well-to-do; it cost more but yielded a much brighter light and did not smoke up the globes so badly; the less-well-to-do (the majority of the community) had to settle for the less expensive coal oil.
Thanks for looking.
