Fill ‘er Up: The Glory Days of Wisconsin Gas Stations (Places Along the Way)

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Step back to the day when a talk over with to the gas station meant service with a smile, a wash of the windshield, and the cheerful question, “Fill ‘er up?” Since their unremarkable beginnings as cheap shacks and curbside pumps on the daybreak of the automobile age, gas stations have taken many forms and worn many guises: castles, cottages and teepees, Art Deco and Streamline Moderne, clad with wood, stucco, or gleaming porcelain in seemingly infinite variety.
 
The companion volume to the Wisconsin Public Tv documentary of the similar name, Fill ‘er Up: The Glory Days of Wisconsin Gas Stations visits 60 Wisconsin gas stations which can be still standing nowadays and chronicles the history of these humble yet ubiquitous buildings. The book tells the larger story of the gas station’s place in automobile culture and its evolution in tandem with American history, in addition to the stories of the individuals influenced by the gas stations in their lives.
 
Fill ‘er Up provides a glimpse into the glory days of gas stations, when full service and free oil changes were the rule and the local station was once a gathering place for neighbors. More importantly, Fill ‘er Up links the past and the present, showing why gas stations will have to be preserved and envisioning what place these historic structures can have in the 21st century and beyond.

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