Pat, those pumps are 50's ear pumps, and if I remember correctly "filling stations" (as we called them back then in East Texas) were always small two pump afairs. Obviously the structure behind these pumps has been rehab'd. One of those pumps may still be supplying that farmer's tractor.
Pat, those pumps are 50's ear pumps, and if I remember correctly "filling stations" (as we called them back then in East Texas) were always small two pump afairs. Obviously the structure behind these pumps has been rehab'd. One of those pumps may still be supplying that farmer's tractor.
I have been photographing for more than 50 years first working as supervisor for yearbook and college newspaper. Later I headed the photography department for the News Service at UTAustin. In 1979, I became a Dobie-Paisano Fellow and began to follow a career in freelance and doing my own personal work. My wife's career pulled us out of Texas for the east coast finally winding up in central Massachusetts. Now in my 79th year, I teach both digital and wet darkroom at a small liberal arts university in Worcester, MA.
I shoot these cameras and formats:
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I have given up on film. I now have only digital cameras -- the Canon 6D, and a Pentax 645D medium format digital.
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nice pic (as always)!
I'm wondering if this was a commercial station or part of a business...
Pat, those pumps are 50's ear pumps, and if I remember correctly "filling stations" (as we called them back then in East Texas) were always small two pump afairs. Obviously the structure behind these pumps has been rehab'd. One of those pumps may still be supplying that farmer's tractor.
Pat, those pumps are 50's ear pumps, and if I remember correctly "filling stations" (as we called them back then in East Texas) were always small two pump afairs. Obviously the structure behind these pumps has been rehab'd. One of those pumps may still be supplying that farmer's tractor.
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