Pictures of Gas Pumps and Gas Stations


An appendix to the Timeline of Cars

Sidewalk with gas pump and hydrant (1910s)

Central Oil gas station in Michigan (1910s)

Influence of the "City Beautiful" movement: A gas station in Pennsylvania (1910s)

Shell gas station in California (1910s)


Gulf Oil gas station in Pittsburgh (1913)

Tokheim curbside gas pump (1921)

Carl August Petersen's gas station in Pennsylvania for the Pure Oil company (1927)

Tokheim gas pumps (1923)


Street lamp and gas pumps (1930s)

Gas station in Palo Alto (1932)

Walter Teague-designed Texaco gas station (1937)


Mobil trademark (1933)

Tokheim gas pump with Veeder-Root computer meter (1937)

Tokheim gas pump (1936)

Frederick Frost-designed gas station for Mobil (1940s)


Phillips 66 gas station (1950s)

Ranch-style gas station for Shell (1950s)

Eliot Noyes-designed gas station for Mobil (1960s)

Most pictures taken from "American Gas Station" by Michael Witzel