The American Gas Station
Subtitle: History and Folklore of the Gas Station in American Car Culture
Publisher: Barnes & Noble Books
Published: 1999
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9780760712405
Subjects: History; Service stations; United States
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.