American Gas Station
Subtitle: History and Folklore of Gas Stations in America
Publisher: MBI
Published: December 13, 1998
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9780760306499
Subjects: Automotive - Repair & Maintenance; Popular Culture - General; United States - General; Antiques & Collectibles / Cars; Transportation; Pop Arts / Pop Culture
First sentence: Before the dawn of the Twentieth Century, when only a handful of Charles E. and J. Frank Duryea's one-cylinder horseless carriages were roaming the countryside and Alexander Winton's first series-produced gas buggies were initially sold, locating liquid fuel to power their simple engines was difficulty.