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I wanna party with these dudes!!

How about a Auto-Gyro advertising Pure Oil Tiolene Motor Oil:

Just learned this was there. I've been past this spot 1,000s of times...never knew it was a garage/dealership until this photo came along. It's now a apartment building.

I dont know if this link has ever been posted before so sorry if it has.
Bound to be some repeats but still some great old photo's!!
Unfortunately most of them are not very big.
Lots of Michigan. In fact they may all be Michigan.

http://www.viewsofthepast.com/topics/fr-gas.htm

Nice pics on that site.

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That Tom Frost garage is now a Goodyear store, same building. Frost moved down the street and is still in business. Here is a google street view of the same building now.


https://maps.google.com/maps?oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&ie=UTF-8&layer=c&z=17&iwloc=A&sll=38.718079,-77.807156&cbp=13,89.8,0,0,0&cbll=38.718078,-77.807541&q=19+BROADVIEW+AVE,+WARRENTON,+VA,+20186&ei=lFtlUoC2AdHe4AOitIG4BQ&ved=0CCwQxB0wAA

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As Orvil lie there regaining his thoughts, the designer in him couldn't help but think, what if we made the wheels the same size?

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