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I respond with a great deal of trepidation. I sure don't want another thread locked or folks banned from the site. Seems that happens all too often when you and I have a talk. Why?, I don't know.
Being a child of the 50's and 60's I am very familiar with how the local men and boys would congregate at the service station. It was the place to be for "men" stuff. My brothers and their friends did exactly the same thing. My younger brother (older than I, he being the middle child and I the baby) had a 1930 something Plymouth that he worked on there constantly. He drove it years with a kitchen chair in place behind the steering wheel until he could get an interior seat <g>. I digress.
I picture Phil's station being similar as the place where all the boys and men hung out doing "men stuff". A good portion of that men stuff included the telling of adventures. Some, I'm sure, embellished. Say it ain't so .........that the deer get bigger racks and the fish get bigger with each telling of the story. Such was the "exhibit" of the artifacts. Which were not just artifacts but a number of odd things to catch folks attention and amuse their interest. Like the HUGE rattlesnake that was also a part of the exhibit.
I ask you with all sincerity........just how much money do you think this exhibit (for lack of a better word) brought in? Hardly more than beer money I'd guess. Might have keep the cold chest of drinks refilled but I hardly think it funded extended expeditions into Arizona. Could be wrong......just guessing.
Being a child of the 50's and 60's I am very familiar with how the local men and boys would congregate at the service station. It was the place to be for "men" stuff. My brothers and their friends did exactly the same thing. My younger brother (older than I, he being the middle child and I the baby) had a 1930 something Plymouth that he worked on there constantly. He drove it years with a kitchen chair in place behind the steering wheel until he could get an interior seat <g>. I digress.
I picture Phil's station being similar as the place where all the boys and men hung out doing "men stuff". A good portion of that men stuff included the telling of adventures. Some, I'm sure, embellished. Say it ain't so .........that the deer get bigger racks and the fish get bigger with each telling of the story. Such was the "exhibit" of the artifacts. Which were not just artifacts but a number of odd things to catch folks attention and amuse their interest. Like the HUGE rattlesnake that was also a part of the exhibit.
I ask you with all sincerity........just how much money do you think this exhibit (for lack of a better word) brought in? Hardly more than beer money I'd guess. Might have keep the cold chest of drinks refilled but I hardly think it funded extended expeditions into Arizona. Could be wrong......just guessing.