Derby Station

[rebound]

Fred Eaglesmith, one of my favorite songwriters, has a song "White Rose" on this topic.  An excerpt:

Gas was fifty cents a gallon
And they put it in for you
And they pumped your tires and checked your oil
And washed your windows too
And we'd shine those cars as bright as bright
And we'd go park underneath that light
And stare out at the prairie sky
There was nothing else to do...

(chorus)
But now there's plywood for glass
Where the windows all got smashed
And there's just a chunk of concrete
Where those old pumps used to stand.
There's a couple of cars half out of the ground
And that old sign still spins 'round and 'round
But I guess the White Rose filling station's just a memory now...

Great song.  There are links on youtube with him singing live where he talks about the actual station, but this one has best audio quality I could find:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMkfuF2URXw

[heironymouspasparagus]

Great photo!  Tulsa used to be on the cutting edge of architecture.  We still have a few MCM gems in and around the 31st & Yale to Harvard area.

At least for the DX gas stations, that was thanks to the aforementioned family member.  He was really good, but constrained by typical corporate "stuff"....


Probably have heard me 'rail' about a garage door as an "architectural feature" on a house....that and many other things were learned from him.

Don't know who made that blog, but that page anyway was very interesting to me...having grown up around that industry from several directions....