Jan 26, 2018 | Museum Tour |
Check out our P-51 Mustang! While this plane is the carbon fiber racing model, the older Fighters with the 1680 HP Merlin engines scream with a deafening sound that is like an orchestra at its crescendo. In the case of the P-51 it screams with a sound of “I...
Jan 25, 2018 | Museum Tour |
In 1936, Bob Wian sold his prized DeSoto Roadster to purchase a small hamburger stand in Glendale, California. He named it Bob’s Pantry. One night in 1937, a regular customer requested something different for a change. Bob went to work and the first double-decker...
Jan 24, 2018 | Museum Tour |
We finally got the beautiful curved glass price windows installed in our newly restored Clear Vision 700 Double Head Gas Pump. With over 100 gas pumps on display in the free museum we don’t usually restore them, but this is so beautiful and rare we...
Jan 23, 2018 | Museum Tour |
We bought this cute Island Pump up in Idaho a while back and finally gave up on finding and American globe for it and settled today for the Chevron globe in the pics. I don’t think they made a lot of these pumps and certainly not for very long. We’ve seen...
Jan 18, 2018 | Museum Tour |
In the early days of autos there were no gas stations as we know them now. Places like drug stores and hardware stores etc. sold gas in these small roll out dispensers that they would put out in front of their stores. Gas tanks were small, car owners were few, and...
Jan 16, 2018 | Museum Tour, Self Storage |
This gas pump is called a Tokheim 39 Tall Pump. It is circa 1939 vintage and was one of Tokheims first “computerized” gas pumps that calculated the gallons and the price on the pump....
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