Aug 2, 2009

Petrolane

I just found this photo from the mid fifties of a long gone building in the suburbs of N.O. It looks to be some kind of appliance showroom/cum filling station? How cool is this?! Nothing remotely as interesting there now, I'm afraid.



Petrolane, 1352 Jefferson Highway

from the wonderful reginonal modernism photostream.
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5 comments:

ayeM8y said...

It's like the LAX of New Orleans.

1:15 AM
Colleen said...

Ooh ooh ooh. Love it! I clicked that link to the photostream & had to look away! Otherwise I'll be sucked in for hours.

9:33 AM
Kim Hambric said...

I'm sure that a beige vinyl building would look far better than that! Or perhaps a gray cinderblock building with a red stripe. That architecture of yore just can't compare to the beauty of today's bunkers.

3:32 PM
The Mistress said...

Is this one of Mean Dirty Pirate's "rest stops"?

5:01 PM
Marshall said...

I drove by there recently. It's STILL a gas station - a now-shut-down-post-Katrina gas station in front of a shuttered Circle K.

1:04 PM

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