Gasoline Stations in the 1950's

You run out of fuel and you do not know where to go? Well in the 1950’s this is where people load up their fuel tanks whenever they ran out of gasoline as you can see in the picture it is an old picture of a cargo truck and a man riding a car who stops by the gasoline station which is Caltex as you can see in the picture a gasoline boy is filling up some gasoline on the tanker while the other gasoline boy is wiping out the dirt on the windshield of the car. As you can notice gasoline stations in 1950’s only has a pair of gasoline apparatus to fill up vehicles only two at a time unlike today each gasoline stations usually can accommodate eight to ten vehicles at the same time.

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In this blog we will reminisce the past by looking at the good old collection of pictures of what Manila and other neighboring provinces looks like a century or decades before our birth in order for us to understand where are roots came from and also to know some of the history of our country through the fascinating collection of pictures from the old scenery that came not only from Manila but also from the different parts of the country including pictures dating from the late Spanish era, early to the late American era, Pre-Japanese Occupation, Japanese Occupation, pre-war, during world war II, after war and also the different decades after that which includes the 50's, 60's, 70's, 80's and early 90's. So all of the era will be covered on this blog so no one will be left behind here haha just kidding. By the way I am not the owner of some of the photos that I will post here and I do not have any intention of copyright infringements here that is why every post I will make it sure that I will give credits to the owners of the photos by posting the sources of the photos. The main intention of this blog is to educate the public and also to give the younger generations an idea of how wonderful the Philippines was back before then.