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Spanning decades, generations, and America in the 1940s and today, this is a fun-loving mystery about an Alabama woman today, and five women who in 1943 worked in a Phillips 66 gas station, during the WWII years. Mrs. Sookie Poole of Point Clear, Alabama, has just married off the last of her three daughters and is looking forward to relaxing and perhaps traveling with her husband, Earle. The only thing left to contend with now is her mother, the formidable...
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From the cocreator of Deadpool comes a hilariously entertaining debut featuring two unlikely and unforgettable amateur sleuths. An engrossing and entertaining murder mystery full of skewering social commentary, Suburban Dicks examines the racial tensions exposed in a New Jersey suburb after the murder of a gas station attendant. Andie Stern thought she'd solved her final homicide. Once a budding FBI profiler, she gave up her career to raise her four...
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Nothing seems to change in Eden Hill, Kentucky, and that's just fine with Virgil T. Osgood. He's been content to raise his family and run the only service station in town. But when a new station is set to open right across the road from Virgil's pumps, he suddenly faces obstacles in his career, his marriage, and his self-worth that he's never even dreamed of. Cornelius Alexander wants his new Zipco station to succeed and help establish a strong foundation...
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"These are the stories of the employees at a truck stop. Some of them make enough to live it up but none of them make enough to live large. When you dig deeper, you may find tales as old as the marketplace of ideas: Tales of struggle and proletariat rage. Tales of hopes and aspirations. And tales of a man with a grimy beard screaming at a maintenance worker, telling him to call 1-800-Eat-S**t. " -- from Amazon.
9) Full service
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In the summer of 1965, teenager Paul Sutton, a northern Minnesota farm boy, takes a job at a gas station in town, where his strict religious upbringing is challenged by new people and experiences.
11) Garage song
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A boy spends a day watching the men work at a busy service station.
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Ding, Ding! The sound echoes through the station bay as a vehicle slowly comes to a stop in front of the gas pumps. Snappy slogans, architecture and color schemes of the gas station itself, incentives and giveaways, stamps and clever advertising from the first few decades of the twentieth century until today's fully stocked convenience stores are covered in this book.
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Gallons of Premium History with 584 illustrations! Refueling the Past will take you back to early blacksmith shops and general stores selling gasolene and horseless carriages up through the nostalgic 20th century service stations, garages, and car dealerships, triggering great memories from a bygone era. There have been a number of publications on the subject, but they have been lacking the historical perspective from those who actually experienced...