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Author Vieyra, Daniel I.

Title "Fill 'er up" : an architectural history of America's gas stations / by Daniel I. Vieyra ; with a foreword by James Marston Fitch
Published New York : Macmillan, [1979]
©1979
©1979

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Description xiv, 111 pages : illustrations ; 21 x 28 cm
Contents Foreword / James Marston Fitch -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Beginnings -- 2. The fantastic -- 3. The respectable -- 4. The domestic -- 5. The "functional" -- 6. Preservation -- Notes to the text -- Sources and notes for illustrations -- Index
Summary A nostasgic photo-essay on America's car-oriented culture traces the development of the gas station from a horse-drawn tank to today's streamlined buildings
Analysis Petrol filling stations Architectural features United States, to 1979
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Architecture, Commercial -- United States -- History
Service stations -- United States.
Roadside architecture -- United States -- History.
Author Fitch, James Marston.
LC no. 79019418
ISBN 002007400X (paperback)
0026220008
9780020074007 (paperback)
9780026220002