How about a Real Shell Gas Station

That period between the 1930's and the 1950's had style!!!! Thanks for sharing.

That's what I'd call Route 66 style!

Gas stations, RR stations, country stores, grain elevators, and water towers...make a bump on the prairie beside two shining, or rusty, rails, and a band of asphalt, as your car peaks a ridge.  Multiple sights l have not enough room to model. Frontier Oil, Tankar, and Skelly stations l have modeled...sorry l didn't see this station, but you can find many pictured on the net. If you find public photos of the above, or small, independent stations once active along the Front Range,  please post...and as often rebranded, any quaint or interesting gasoline dispensary.

Menards has had at least two really nice gas stations in their O scale building lineup. I don't think either are currently available. I bet you can find them on the bay though.

Too bad that the writer doesn't know the difference between a clam shell and and a scallop shell.

A friend of mine told me about this one too! There is no reason this couldn't be done in scale costing less than $59 like the recent bachmann ice cream stand.

@Arthur P. Bloom posted:

Too bad that the writer doesn't know the difference between a clam shell and and a scallop shell.

"When Raymond Loewy designed the current Shell symbol in 1971, it had already gone though many incarnations. Although the original 1901 brand for the London-based Shell Transport and Trading Company was a mussel shell, by 1904 the scallop shell was introduced – possibly from the family coat of arms of the company’s founder Marcus Samuel, whose business would merge with Royal Dutch Petroleum Company to form Royal Dutch-Shell Oil. Samuel had a habit of naming his tankers after different kinds of shells, and he had a background importing objects from the Far East, including beautiful shells."

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I was expecting something that looked like it came from a spongebob cartoon.  I was not totally disappointed.