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I was looking for De Soto, WI, but accidently got De Soto, MO. When I saw that the signature photo for the town was an old gas station, I dug deeper.
Note that the pump on the right displays "Fire Chief" instead of the Big Red Star.
I originally noticed this photo because it can evidently pump only 9.99 gallons of gas. Then I noticed the sight glass. The sight glass dates the pump before the 1960s, probably before the 1950s, but this pump was used a long time because 42.9 cents per gallon is quite a bit. I don't remember gas being that high in the 1960s. I do remember that our 1961 Dodge station wagon had a 20-gallon tank. So did the service attendant have to pump gas twice to fill up a tank? Or did the meter wrap around, and he had to remember to add the one for the 10's column?
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