1940s America - Life at the Gas Station [COLORIZED] #Video

Added by Mel in Video Of The Day! Automotive

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Please enjoy these old service station photos from 1940s America. Within these photos, you'll see classic American cars in action - before they were classics. You'll also see people living their daily lives so many years ago.

During the 1940s and gas stations started popping up all over America due to more and more people owning cars. Americans needed somewhere to fill up all those cars right? From the big city to the rural countryside just about every American got to experience this newfound car culture and with it the rise of the service station.

I hope you enjoy these old photos - and thanks for watching!

Comments

CHARLIE G. Added 11 months ago COULDN'T HELP NOTICING HOW MANY OF THOSE GREAT CARS HAD FENDER SKIRTS - THE WORST THING EVER INVENTED - GET A FLAT REAR TIRE ON A WINTER NIGHT AND TRY TO GET ONE OFF - THEY LITTERLLY FROZE TO THE FENDER !!!
GREAT VIDEO MEL
STAY SAFE ! C.G.
BA Added 11 months ago These truly were the "good old days." Thanks Mel
Mike Added 11 months ago Great as always.
Win Added 12 months ago Thanks Mel. That was the year of my birth. Shortly after I was born we fled England for South Africa. It was wonderful growing up until the British screwed things up!! The Americans are now screwing up America!! We owned many American cars and loved everyone of them!
mercedes Added 12 months ago Great Video of the old stations!
Chris Spencer Added 12 months ago Very cool!! I especially liked the part from my hometown of Tuscaloosa, Alabama. The area shown is on what was back then called Broad Street but is now University Blvd. It is right on the edge of the campus of the University of Alabama.
Randy Ferguson Added 12 months ago Great video of old cars and gas stations! Thanks, Mel.
antoinette Added 12 months ago Thanks this time it came through...liked it very much!...enjoyed watching all your e-mails!
Lola Added 12 months ago COOL VIDEO!!!!!
antoinette Added 12 months ago What video..I got nothing? I like your e-mails and I am hopping it comes backon line
Kathy Added 12 months ago Love these old car and gas station videos.
SMITH Added 12 months ago It looks so peaceful and orderly. Unfortunately Here in the U.K. Petrol/gasoline was only available to people with written authority because of the war. I was born during an air raid in 1941. Under nourished and not expected to live through the night. But I did. Then survived the food and fuel rationing etc. But that's how things were.
Mary Jane Added 12 months ago A bit before my time, but I love seeing the old cars, so much nicer than the cars of today.
Bill Added 12 months ago I liked the video, but my remembrance of gas pumps up to the mid 50's was a pump with a glass bubble at the top holding 10 gallons of gas., and people would ask for gas by the gallons. I worked at one that was ran by my step dad in a wide space in the road between Alamogordo NM and El Paso, TX.
oldtom9 Added 12 months ago Love these photos! Some of these are not form the 1940's because the auto are from the early fifties. For example, the one with the Studebaker two-door hardtop. That was a one-year model introduced in 1952. This in no way detracts from the delight of seeing these memories. I think that the Ford in the picture from 1945 might have been built towards the end of the model run (January 1945). It lacks some chrome plating exterior treatment but not all. Keep 'em comin'! Thanks
Ron Added 12 months ago Loved this video Mel because of the cars! These OLD cars are a turn on as I like them so much better than the JUNK today! I'd love to own a '34 or '40 Ford 4 dr. sedan. LOVE the EASIER CODES too!!
Paul Added 12 months ago Good one !!
Johnny Added 12 months ago It brings back so many memories. The cars were not the streamlined beauties of the 50's, but it is clear that the 40's were worrying times, war was just around the corner, and the cars were cumbersome. All changed shapes after the war.