My father sold gas or petrol at his General Store. When I was a young child I remember swinging around a pole beside the pumps admiring the Tony the Tiger boards that were advertising Esso at the time. Maybe that's why I am enjoying the service station project, sentimentalist that I am.
The station above is Art Deco and is situated on Parramatta Road at Summer Hill. Parramatta Road is a historical and important road in Sydney which linked the original town and Parramatta where they could grow food for the settlement. This station, being built in the 1930's, would enjoy the benefits of a great deal of traffic heading west.
The second service station, fresh off the sketch pad this morning, was not built specifically for the purpose of petrol but it is a Victorian house which has been a petrol station for a long time. The pumps are right on the sidewalk. This one is in Norton St, Leichhardt, near the city west link. The palm trees appear to be growing out of the verandah.
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