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surfer jim
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Do you remember..... hand crank gas pumps?
These had a big glass tank at the top and the attendent cranked a handle to raise the gas from the storage tank.The glass tank had markings on it
showing liters/(gallons?).
You would see the amount in tank and then it would gravity feed into your car. No short changing with this old school method!
Remember in my early trips one near San Vicente(??) and another around Hwy3 / Hwy 5 intersection.
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N2Baja
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I remember some cranky gas pump attendants!
Forget about the danger and think of the fun.
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Sharksbaja
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How the hell old are you?
[Edited on 1-28-2009 by Sharksbaja]
DON\'T SQUINT! Give yer eyes a break!
Try holding down [control] key and toggle the [+ and -] keys
Viva Mulege!
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DENNIS
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I remember that old pump in San Vicente as well. We once, early sixties, crossed from San Felipe to Hwy-1 coming out just below Santo Tomas. It
could hardly be called a road through the desert and mountains and the trip took two days. The gas station out there was a farm house with fifty
gallon barrels of gas and the farmers wife would cook breakfast for a little bit of nothing.
It was another time.
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BajaWarrior
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The last one I remember was in Colonet at the San Antonio del Mar turnoff. It was there at least until the mid 80's.
Also one in Independencia, halfway from Ensenada to Hwy. 5 leading to San Felipe, and that was in the early 90's.
Haven't had a bad trip yet....
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woody with a view
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The last one I remember was in Colonet at the San Antonio del Mar turnoff. It was there at least until the mid 80's.
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baitcast
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MY first encounter with those was in 64 Puertecitos it was,first run down to
Gonzaga,what startled me was the color of the juice that he pumped up out of the tank,dark brown had enough problems on that trip already and could just see everything plugged up
Rob
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shari
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ah yes, seems like it was only yesterday.....uh...actually it was only yesterday we got deisel for a yacht...diesel is still served up here with a
hand crank pump....yup...many say we are about 40 years behind the times....thank goodness.
[Edited on 1-28-2009 by shari]
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surfer jim
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Colonet....that is the one I'm probably remembering....they finally took the pump down and closed the station but the building remained for many years
(may still be there for all I know).....
I am so old my next question will be ...Do you remember ...when they invented electricity?.....
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KurtG
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| Quote: | Originally posted by surfer jim
These had a big glass tank at the top and the attendent cranked a handle to raise the gas from the storage tank.The glass tank had markings on it
showing liters/(gallons?).
You would see the amount in tank and then it would gravity feed into your car. No short changing with this old school method!
Remember in my early trips one near San Vicente(??) and another around Hwy3 / Hwy 5 intersection. |
I dispensed gas from one of those at the summer resort I worked at in Minnesota around 1960.
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David K
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El Rosario gravity pump, 1960
Photo from the Howard Gulick collection... Union Oil station The other station was Baja Cactus (today's name)... a Standard Oil station.
The station 1/2 mile north of Colonet was Bradley's Rancho Grande (it was a Chevron station from the pre-Pemex days)... I think I last got gas there
was in 1976... driving out from the coast at San Antonio del Mar.
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Paulina
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Wasn't there another gravity pump in El Rosario at the gas station just as you made the turn heading south, on the north side of the road?
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David K
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Espinoza had a Pemex station there after the highway was built (now the propane depot)... but Antonio's family station won the competition... and
remains the only Pemex in town.
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fdt
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Do you remember...
crank phones in Santa Rosalia?
A well informed Baja California traveler is a smart Baja California traveler!
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thebajarunner
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In the NORRA races we gassed the race truck out of those.
I remember particularly the one at Espinosa and the one in San Ignacio, just at the corner of the town square.
Then you dumped a bunch of octane additive in on top and hoped it all averaged out to sufficient non-ping to keep on trucking.
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CaboRon
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My recollection of these is from South Dakota ...
They were state of the art then
CaboRon
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Baja12valve
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| Quote: | Originally posted by David K
Photo from the Howard Gulick collection... Union Oil station The other station was Baja Cactus (today's name)... a Standard Oil station.
The station 1/2 mile north of Colonet was Bradley's Rancho Grande (it was a Chevron station from the pre-Pemex days)... I think I last got gas there
was in 1976... driving out from the coast at San Antonio del Mar. |
Two of my best cars are in that picture. I drove a 51 4wd Willys Overland for years in Baja. The one in the picture is a '60 or so. I traded it to my
Dad for a '62 4x4 Chevy Suburban, 4sp, that I drove for almost 20 years, never failed me.
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Udo
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The last three gravity-fed pumps I remember:
One was at the military stop about 20 miles north of San Felipe. another one was in Santa Rosalia, and the third one was in Bahia Tortugas. I have
photos of them but they are [prints]. I am not as talented as David K and know of a simple way to scan them into my computer and spit out a digital
image.  SIGGHH
During my Jeeping days (just as Ken is Jeeping now) I used to carry a chamois to strain the gas before it went into my tank.
Udo
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David K
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Udo.... next time you are near here... bring them by and I will scan them and send them to your PC and post on Nomad... no problema!
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Udo
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Muchas gracias, David!!!!
I should be in your neighborhood again on the doce de Febrero, and I'll bring the photos.
It was really an honor to meet you in person a couple of weeks ago.
Udo
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