I remember as a kid walking past an old abandoned gas station. There was a pad lock and a door that could be opened a little bit. In it I saw junk here and there from the little view I had.
What I found that was interesting that I seen an old cash register. This would be the old mechanical cash register. I would imagine it was a gas station from the 30's or 40's.
The picture I have on this blog is from pixabay.com. From the last price I am guessing it was around the 70's to 80's. This was the time when gas pumps had the rolling digits. I remember buying gas in those days with the rolling digits. Kind of like my old vehicles that have the odometer in rolling digits. I call it rolling digits, anyway.
In an old car if the car went over the maximum amount of miles it would do a rollover. I can't do a roll over now days as there too many digits in the odometers in my vehicles.
Let's get back to the gas station in the picture. I would imagine that this gas station in it's day would sell penny candy. I guess it wouldn't be worth it to sell penny candy today, but in my kid days I use to love to get penny candy.
Of course in those days the pennies had a lot of copper, 95% copper in them as opposed to now days where the penny after 1982 is just copper plated or 2.5% copper. This is why I collect pennies that are 95% copper. I do see them in my change here and there.
Now days, the thought of penny candy doesn't thrill me like in my kid days.
Let's get back to abandoned gas stations. I have a cousin that used to live across the street from an abandoned gas station. Well one day the police came by and asked if he seen anything suspicious as the two gas pumps across the street from him were stolen.
Well, my cousin always seems to laugh at a lot of things. So he said, They stole those old gas pumps. Then he started laughing. The police didn't think it was that funny, but that is how my cousin is. He laughs that things like that.
Now days they bulldozed that old abandoned gas station and there is now a really big gas station in its place. Sometimes that happens with abandoned gas stations. They get knocked down and a new gas station takes it's place.
Then some gas stations have not seen customers in decades and the building is still standing and looking old, ready for someone to tell its story.
Let's end with a scripture, A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up; Ecclesiastes 3:3.
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Image is from pixabay.com.