Photo Subject: Old Gas Pumps and Gas Stations

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Old fashioned gas pump and gas stations – the kind that actually an attendant who pumped your gas, cleaned your windshield and even check the oil, don’t seem to exist any more.

New Hampshire doesn’t have a lot of cities. Most of the state is made up of small villages and many of them are centered around a general store and a gas pump like this one in Danbury, NH. https://edward-fielding.pixels.com/featured/dicks-general-store-danbury-nh-edward-fielding.html

Nowadays, you pull into a gas station, pop open the gas, push a credit card into the machine and pump the gas while watching some advertisement on a tiny tv on the pump. You don’t even have any human interaction.

Old fashioned gas pumps are still in use in the rural area of Vermont and New Hampshire like this one at the Roxbury, Vermont Country Store. No credit cards taken. One pump and a squeege. https://edward-fielding.pixels.com/featured/roxbury-country-store-roxbury-vermont-edward-fielding.html

So you can see the nostalgic appeal of old fashioned gas stations. No jobs lost to automation. A quick safety check by a helpful attendant, no gas spilled on your shoes and a clean windshield. Sure you had to wait for the kid to run into the office and run your credit card but you got that satisfying handwritten receipt with at blue carbon copy!

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This old gas station was found in the Nevada desert, about an hour outside of Las Vegas. Talk about last chance for gas.

Old abandoned gas pump in Hatch, Utah. https://edward-fielding.pixels.com/featured/desert-gas-station-edward-fielding.html

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