Cities Service, Sinclair, Atlantic. But those maps are now a part of our collectible past. So are all the other paraphanalia from gas stations. For some reason those things really do remind us of those road trips to places long vanished. It is quite popular today and you can find many internet sites with pictures of collections as well as those selling or auctioning the same.
Boomers are the first generation to grow up with fast food.
Here in Maryland our first one was Gino's, something between today's fast food place and the old drive-in spots. You parked, went into get your hamburger, which cost something like five or ten cents, and took it to the car . Their popular sandwich was the Gino Giant. During the sixties Gino's was all over the Baltimore area. But alas, the Gino Giant is now just a tasty memory Going on road trips to New Jersey we always stopped at the Hot Shoppe or at Howard Johnson's.