{"id":1904,"date":"2009-05-16T15:08:33","date_gmt":"2009-05-16T22:08:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/16\/a-nice-old-gas-station-in-phoenix\/"},"modified":"2009-05-16T15:08:33","modified_gmt":"2009-05-16T22:08:33","slug":"a-nice-old-gas-station-in-phoenix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/16\/a-nice-old-gas-station-in-phoenix\/","title":{"rendered":"A Nice Old Gas Station in Phoenix"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As we were leaving the Phoenix Convention Center yesterday, I snapped this picture from the car window. This is now a muffler shop, but judging from the art-deco architecture style, it must have been a 1930&#8217;s era service station. Most people don&#8217;t remember a time when a service station attendant would pump your gas, check your oil and wash your windshield, all for about nineteen cents a gallon. Buildings like this popped up all along Old Route 66 and elsewhere in thriving southwestern cities and towns.<\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/vernabob.com\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/old-station.jpg' title='old-station.jpg'><img src='http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/old-station.thumbnail.jpg' alt='old-station.jpg' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Click image to enlarge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we were leaving the Phoenix Convention Center yesterday, I snapped this picture from the car window. This is now a muffler shop, but judging from&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-classics","category-nostalgia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1904\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}