Remember the time when you could motor around Los Angeles in your 1932 Auburn convertible, and you could pull up to a 76 gas station and two cheery, uniformed attendants would fill up your gas, clean your window, check your oil, and send you on your way with a smile and a wave? Yeah, neither do I, but it sure must have been nice. (The woman in the photo is actress Dorothy Christy who has 107 screen credits on IMDB, most of them uncredited roles in movies I’ve never heard of.)
Two attendants service Dorothy Christy’s circa 1932 Auburn convertible at a 76 gas station somewhere in Southern California, circa early 1930s
“Clock face” pumps, but this station seems to have opted out of any glass globes and gone with overhead illumination or signage based on the cast metal lamp standard. Those attendants uniforms look like clothes rack refugees from an MGM musical….”Say Skipper! How’s about tying off my land yacht with that rubber bowline while I sing a few bars?”.