The day that Leslie and I went antique shopping, we found this old service station on the side of Hwy 11 near Steele, Alabama. From looking at the stripes and the curved details, it was part of the old Pan-Am chain that existed across the Southeast. Later on, I think many of them were re-branded as Amoco (which is now BP). This one just didn’t make it but looked so different we explored a little:
Liked these signs the best:
The sweet dinosaur mascot (and the old-style lettering above the door) of this Sinclair station in Pontotoc, MS:
…and this Woco Pep mural in York, Alabama:
This sign around Utica, MS:
…and this monument in the Guin, Alabama city cemetery:
This is a no-longer-functioning service station in Acmar, Alabama (a small mining town) that’s different because it’s made of coal.
The town was built around a coal mining operation; when the owner of the company came to dedicate the United Methodist Church here in the 1920s:
He said, “Father, make the door of this house we have erected to Thee wide enough to receive all those who need human love and fellowship and a Father’s care; and narrow enough to shut out all envy and hate.”