Old Gas Station Pictures

Very cool indeed.

My grandfather was the proprietor of a Shell gas station in Detroit (Gratiot and Sanford (if I remember correctly)) for 45 years. He helped design "his" gas station with the corporate "big wigs". He retired in 1972 when I was 12. I remember many Saturdays at "the station" as a kid. When he passed away, in 1998, there were literally hundreds of former customers and several surviving former employees that had come to pay their respects to old "Kretsch".

Good times!!