A Google Lens search insists that it's the opening day of the new Save Way Service Station at Bay Street and Willow Avenue in Clifton on August 13 1971. I don't think it is.
I think we could make up better stories than that.
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Dave
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"Qu'en penses-tu, Joe ?" might be more appropriate, as Google Lens pointed out to me that the pump is calibrated in ""FRANCS" and "LITRES" and gas is labeled "ESSENCE" as I can easily see looking at the full-size image. If it weren't for the "FRANCS" I would think it might have been somewhere in Quebec or Ontario.
Also the "Mobilgel" would not have cost $6.35 so that must be Francs, and there weren't really much if any Diesel powered cars around in the US or Canada at the time that picture was taken.
Other than it's probably happening in France I have no idea what's going on.
You seem to have run across one of the few bits of photographic evidence of the ill-fated attempt to replace the mail room electric carts with gasoline powered micro cars in delivering inter-office memos at the world headquarters of Polyglaptic International. Upper management had enough foresight to realize they would need refueling and servicing stations on each floor of the massive office building, but somehow failed to recognize that the buildup of noxious internal combustion exhaust fumes would have a deleterious effect on office productivity. In their defense, this was at a time of near universal indoor cigarette smoking and for the first few weeks of the changeover the air quality effects were almost unnoticeable. In true corporate fashion, everyone on the top floor banded together, and placed the blame for the incident on one recently fired junior executive and proceeded to scrub all other references from corporate files. I was told the story by my uncle Bennie, in short sentences timed with the functioning of his iron lung, but had chalked it up to the ravings of a dying old man until seeing this photo. Uncle Bennie, wherever you are, please accept my posthumous apologies.
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"Qu'en penses-tu, Joe ?" might be more appropriate, as Google Lens pointed out to me that the pump is calibrated in ""FRANCS" and "LITRES" and gas is labeled "ESSENCE" as I can easily see looking at the full-size image. If it weren't for the "FRANCS" I would think it might have been somewhere in Quebec or Ontario.
Also the "Mobilgel" would not have cost $6.35 so that must be Francs, and there weren't really much if any Diesel powered cars around in the US or Canada at the time that picture was taken.
Other than it's probably happening in France I have no idea what's going on.
You seem to have run across one of the few bits of photographic evidence of the ill-fated attempt to replace the mail room electric carts with gasoline powered micro cars in delivering inter-office memos at the world headquarters of Polyglaptic International. Upper management had enough foresight to realize they would need refueling and servicing stations on each floor of the massive office building, but somehow failed to recognize that the buildup of noxious internal combustion exhaust fumes would have a deleterious effect on office productivity. In their defense, this was at a time of near universal indoor cigarette smoking and for the first few weeks of the changeover the air quality effects were almost unnoticeable. In true corporate fashion, everyone on the top floor banded together, and placed the blame for the incident on one recently fired junior executive and proceeded to scrub all other references from corporate files. I was told the story by my uncle Bennie, in short sentences timed with the functioning of his iron lung, but had chalked it up to the ravings of a dying old man until seeing this photo. Uncle Bennie, wherever you are, please accept my posthumous apologies.
Apparently there are slightly underground and fully-enclosed gas stations in Paris. Maybe that's what this picture is about?
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/InZS9Pw82Bk/maxresdefault.jpg
https://iloveparis.blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/img_2716.jpeg?w=1024
yer Uncle Bennie's iron lung was run off of a diesel generator.
Unleaded! Wadda mean unleaded.
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