when and where was the first gas station open
The plaque reads: At this site in Dec. 1913, Gulf Refining Co. opened the first drive-in facility designed and built to provide gasoline, oils, and lubricants to the motoring public.. Site of First Gas Station. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. A historical marker stands at the street corner where the world's first drive-in gas station opened in December 1913. Until then, drivers got their gas at general stores, hardware shops, even soon-to-be-obsolete blacksmiths. Photos of the first-of-its-kind facility show a small central island covered by a large roof that extended over surrounding driveways -- a convenient pull-it-in-and-gas-it-up design familiar even today.