Old Photo - Moonshine Around Back

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Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Jay - In Northern California on Tuesday, July 16, 2013 - 10:56 am:


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Henry Petrino in Modesto, CA on Tuesday, July 16, 2013 - 11:09 am:

I love those porch corner "foundations".

Great photo Jay!!


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Darel J. Leipold on Tuesday, July 16, 2013 - 05:27 pm:

That is a Standard oil globe on the visible gasoline pump. It is a hand pumped type. I do not see an electric line anywhere. The coupe' is a 1926 or 27 vintage.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Jack Putnam, Bluffton, Ohio on Tuesday, July 16, 2013 - 06:17 pm:

Looks like the guard dog is under the porch!

The visible pumps are mechanical, non-electric as far as the pump is concerned. The glass on the pump is pumped full of gasoline, and the amount sold comes down from the top of the glass by gravity through the hose to you car tank. You see what you bought is no longer in the pump. That is why they are visible! Notice the pump in the picture looks like the last sale was 4 gallons. The glass is more than half full of gasoline. Most of these pumps held 10 gallons in the glass.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Ken Kopsky, Lytle TX on Tuesday, July 16, 2013 - 06:32 pm:

That gas looks pretty dark?

Wonder if that picture was out of the Commercial Property listings? :-)


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Tom VanMeeteren on Tuesday, July 16, 2013 - 10:40 pm:

Notice the two dogs under the porch?


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Roar Sand on Wednesday, July 17, 2013 - 08:29 am:

Good morning!
I remember being with my dad and getting gas from a hand pumped gas pump. I think the brand was called "MIL BP", and was the forerunner of BP. If my memory serves me right, always a shaky proposition, the pump had two glass cylinders, so you could switch over and pump and fill one while you by gravity drained the other into your tank. How many of you gentlemen have actually had that experience?


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Tony Bowker on Wednesday, July 17, 2013 - 11:17 am:

I have used the gravity gas pump twice.....
Before we were married, had to be about 1960, we were driving in Scotland in a 1947 VW and we found one, it worked and we bought gas. Then in the 1980's we were in Baja, probably on a Lee Chase 500 mile tour, and we found one just north of San Filipe, so we filled the T coupe before entering the town. They seemed quite practical and you can see that you are getting full measure.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Darel J. Leipold on Wednesday, July 17, 2013 - 11:33 am:

Jack. Wayne made visible pumps in both electric and hand pump. My Roman visible is hand pump. but the same came with an electric pump. Both are 1924 and are listed in the Wayne 1924 catalog.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Bud Holzschuh - Panama City, FL on Wednesday, July 17, 2013 - 11:50 am:

"If your porch collapsed and killed your dog....you might be a redneck"


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Jay - In Northern California on Wednesday, July 17, 2013 - 11:55 am:

Good one Bud!


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By John Stokes on Wednesday, July 17, 2013 - 05:08 pm:

Bourbon and coke, anyone?


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