AN ARTISTIC PETROL STATION, THE WONDER BOOK OF MOTORS C1935

UK 1963, MAGAZINE COVER

Barrett Gallagher for FORTUNE

COROC, finished for Petrol Pumps c1932

Wayne Computing Pumps, September 1939

In Petroleum Too... Purolator 1956 (with attack jets)

 

The Garage Forecourt as represented here is a perfect world with constant feature and genial staffage. How closely is the minutae of the forecourt studied and manipulated by the Giant Hands.

 

The Gas Jerk has a uniform but in his bowtie,signifies he is not of the military but styled to serve you, not without some erotic frisson.

 

 

1. PURE April1959

2.Packard May 1948

3.Ogden Pleissner for FORTUNEJune 1938

4. Atlas 1953

5.Gulf, June 1951

6.Texaco July 1951

7.Ervin Metzl for FORTUNE c1935

8.SONOCOJuly 1955

9. Texaco April1956

10 Texaco August 1958