Image: APAgip service station, Moncalieri, Italy, 1958Image: ENIAgip service station, San Donato Milanese, Italy, 1958Image: ENIAgip service station, Cerignola, Italy, 1958Image: ENIPurfina service station, Arnhem, Netherlands, 1958Image: Hans Pies/GVNLAgip service station on state highway 16, Barletta, Italy, 1959Image: ENINice hyperboloid structure: a 20113-ton reinforced concrete roof at a National service station in Retford, England, 1961.
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She replied that he more likely runs a service station.
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Hospitality, being behind a service station, just fits with me.
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There was a self-service station for coffee, tea and espresso.
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My father owned a service station for most of his career.
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Did your dad run a service station when you were growing up?
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Image: USCDLGasoline Mosque: an Union Oil Service station with strong Islamic influence.
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Image: Moneo-BrockEco station with photovoltaic roof: Acciona service station, Legarda, Spain.
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He had the first African-American-owned service station in North Carolina.
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Back then, he owned a gas and service station in Berwyn, Ill.
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Ireland has a highway service station dedicated former US President Barack Obama.
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We stopped at a service station in a small town called Whiteville.
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Image: Boston Public LibraryAn Art Deco Liberty Gasoline service station, Southern California, 1931.
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Once at the service station, they headed to the back of the complex.
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His father, Wayne, managed a service station and later owned a hardware store.
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And most of us emptied our gloveboxes of service station roadmaps years ago.
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Just before the accident, we'd gotten gas and gum at a service station.
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That amount would buy less than 20 liters of petrol at a service station.
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A couple of hours in, we made a bathroom stop at a service station.
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There's something bizarre about seeing Obama's name plastered on regular old service-station signs.
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After leaving baseball, Scheib retired to San Antonio and owned a service station and carwash.
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The pub across the street from Mr. Harris's service station is now an African grocery.
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Grocery stores, beauty shops, a fish market, service station and fruit stand — all are gone.
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Somehow I knew it: I'd be stepping in at service station, trusted to pour highballs.
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Any payment typically comes in the form of a tip to the service station employee.
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He kicked off his campaign at his family gas station, Griffith Service Station, in Mobile.
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Meal and bathroom breaks were at the mercy of local restaurant and service station owners.
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Gas prices also dropped on average in October, according to data taken from service station receipts.
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In another area, the gas pumps and convenience store of an Esso service station remained intact.
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Scared and nervous, she got out of her car to head to the nearest service station.
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I checked my gauge and tried to remember how far back the last service station was.
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I ran out crying, and I pulled down my shorts and peed beside the service station.
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Waiting in a service station waiting room purgatory one day, Victor Darolfi had a simple thought.
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A bullet apparently hit a nearby service station and caused it to erupt in flames, McGalin said.
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Conversations over transfer fees, and whose cousin spotted whom in a service station, offer a way in.
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"This problem won't end until production at the refineries improves," said the manager of one service station.
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I got the Uber driver to stop at the nearest service station so I could shoot up.
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It also signed an agreement for a possible investment of a retail service station network with Aramco.
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Regional infrastructure needs—such as increased ferry service, station upgrades, and bus options—can finally be addressed.
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Cover image: FILE- This April 25, 2017, file photo, shows Exxon service station signs in Nashville, Tenn.
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"They have taken control of the pumps," said Rocio Huerta, a manager of a service station in Maracaibo.
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Kent Police said three arrests were made in Dover itself and six at a nearby motorway service station.
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ON A dusty road leading travellers out of the southern outskirts of Asmara stands a small service station.
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Before leaving Clorinda, we stopped at the service station; Natalia needed cigarettes, and I needed another grapefruit Fanta.
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Just over 20 percent were not able to resolve their problem in one visit to a service station.
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The system described in this patent could be installed in a service station or integrated into a mobile rig.
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Drop her off at an RCMP station, Calgary Police Service station, or grocery store, gas station, wherever you want.
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Image: Detroit Public LibraryThe Sinclair Super Service Station was built exclusively for the 22007-22008 New York World's Fair.
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They are due to be installed at service station operator Tank & Rast locations by the end of the year.
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I worked at my granddad's service station every summer from the time I was 7 or 8 years old.
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Around the same time, Cummins was recorded by a surveillance camera getting gas at a nearby service station, authorities said.
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Image: Paul van Galen/Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel ErfgoedThe legendary Fiat Tagliero, a Futurist-style service station in Asmara, Eritrea.
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Local Tibetan residents walk past Alibaba's delivery service station, at the foot of Mount Everest, serving a population of 214.3,22015.
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When was the last time you saw one of those on the high street, let alone in a service station?
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Convinced they posed no threat of harm, either to the service station or themselves, the police allowed them to leave.
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Tank Garage Winery, on the outskirts of Calistoga, is situated in a 1930s service station adorned with vintage gas pumps.
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The couple had three more sons, and Benjamin Paddock operated a service station, a nightclub and a garbage disposal franchise.
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Mr. Farquhar's roots are more working class: His father worked at a service station, and his mother worked at McDonald's.
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Following his normal daily routine, Johnson stopped at a local service station in Brooklyn to buy $5 worth of lottery tickets.
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Formed in 2014, G500 is an association of service station owners, established in response to the deregulation of Mexico's petroleum industry.
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"The service station staff bolted the doors and through the windows we could see a large group of fascists," he said.
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If you're on the tour bus and you're hungry, you're not going to find any health food at the service station.
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He quickly returns and tells Anderson to "pull into that parking lot" across the street, pointing to a QuikTrip service station.
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Hundreds of structures share the understated formal simplicity of the AGIP service station; several boast the flamboyance of the Fiat one.
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They included a delivery driver, a service station attendant, a physical education instructor, several who were unemployed and a petty criminal.
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Aside from bicycle-influenced decor, books and apparel, the store features a bicycle self-service station and bike parts vending machine.
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Since 2014, one of Ireland&aposs main highways has had a bizarre service station dedicated to former US President Barack Obama.
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"If your car gets hit by someone, you'll still be safe," says Vad Prakash, a mechanic at Safdarjung Service Station in Delhi.
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Image: © Villy Fink Isaksen, Wikimedia Commons, License cc-by-sa-3.0'Auto Palace' service station for Texaco, in Nijmegen, Netherlands, 20093.
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Up until that point, the plan was to bring the out-of-service station back to Earth through a controlled final descent.
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The sale will also include images of women wrestlers from the 1970s and Mobil Oil service station from the 1930s to '50s.
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Residents and relief workers line up to buy food and supplies at a Mobil service station in Tavernier, Florida, which reopened on Tuesday.
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Trick or treating just got a whole lot more intense in this foiled robbery at a service station in Maitland back in November.
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Dave Fogal, who runs a service station on Route 522, told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette that he saw much of the episode transpire.
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Image: William Vanderson/Fox Photos/Getty ImagesThe Italian art of steel and reinforced concrete: Aquila service station, Sesto San Giovanni (MI), Italy, 1949.
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Service Station The roadside spot that was Nichol's for years has new owners and will serve comfort food: 100 Montauk Highway, East Hampton.
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Of course, for fishmongering to stage a real comeback, it will take more than a wet fish counter at a motorway service station.
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One day, when she was getting her car repaired, she struck up a conversation with a man in the service-station waiting room.
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Mr. Bowers had his own service-station job, at a place on Hollywood Boulevard, and that is where his sexual referral business blossomed.
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Turned down by the company for a second franchise, he visited the first Tim Hortons doughnut shop, a converted service station in Hamilton.
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They're a delicious, calorific treat Australians enjoy at the football, or as a last resort from a service station after a night of drinking.
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The right-wing group allegedly used sticks and debris found around the service station to attack, according to a witness from the opposing group.
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Stop to get food and we share vegetarian nachos with beans, cheese, and guac and veggie chili from one of the service station shops.
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Queensland Police say the man was causing a disturbance at a nearby service station, after the attendant recognised him from a previous shoplifting incident.
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Having seemingly left the service station on foot, the two sisters were spotted on security camera walking down the median of the M22012 highway.
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A: I ran back to the bar and I asked the girls to take my section and I just stood by the service station.
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No one likes to check his or her balance at a service station&aposs ATM, and things get even more complicated when you&aposre overseas.
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On August 203, 220, the Palmeraie service station in Marrakech, Morocco became the one thousandth in the Total network to be powered by solar energy.
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Like an aggressive Halloween trick-or-treat, a courageous Australian service station attendant has defended himself from would-be robbers by pelting candy at them.
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Service station operators posted notices of how they had been forced to bring in gas from distant areas, and the authorities warned against price gouging.
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Pullen said that a service station with 20 charging stations would use about six megawatts of power — the same amount as a typical small town.
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The Brazilian investigation into Petrobras, called "Operation Carwash," a reference to a service station that laundered money, has shaken the political establishment to the core.
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For example, said Tottman, an app may suggest a coffee at a service station at the insurer's expense if it detects tiredness in a driver's voice.
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It includes a service station akin to Apple's Genius Bar, where shoppers can pick up or return their orders, or get help when something isn't right.
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Italy's service station landscape is over-crowded, with around 21,000 points across the country, twice the number in France and almost three times that in Britain.
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At 51, Mr. Harris owns a service station and leads the local branch of the U.K. Independence Party, or UKIP, which helped drive the Brexit campaign.
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I'd overshot my intended Mount Irish access point by about 45 minutes before a kind cashier at a service station near Panaca handed me a map.
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The next time you use your card at a self-service station — a parking garage, gas station, even an ATM — check the reader for any tampering.
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Wholesale gasoline futures rose Thursday 5 cents, or 3 percent, to $1.66 per gallon, and experts say that will quickly show up on service-station signs.
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Along Ireland's M7 highway, which connects the cities of Limerick and Dublin, there's a strange place — a service station dedicated to former US President Barack Obama.
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Her father, who owned a service station and garage, died when she was 11, leaving her mother to raise her and four siblings during the Depression.
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"Smuggling is going to continue because there is no other way to make a living," Bayona said, at the entrance to a service station in Ureña.
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A BP service station and mini-mart in Wilmington ran out of gasoline for about two hours on Monday as motorists rushed to fill up their tanks.
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That was when he was identified from security camera footage at a motorway service station driving with Abdeslam toward Paris from Belgium two days before the Nov.
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History aficionados with a party streak (and vice versa), consider your morning-after plans sorted: Spain's public service station, Corporación de Radio y Televisión Española, S.A. (a.k.a.
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" In the video on Twitter, since taken down, he jokes: "I'm in the Classic service station here, but I'm just wondering, where does McCullough's keep the bread?
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Murnane possesses few useful skills for a men's shed, but the week after he moved to Goroke, the owner of the local service station invited him to join.
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Two minutes later, she grabbed her purse and her cigarettes and said that the guy was going to take her to the service station to call for help.
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And if you plan to buy a local service station yesterday and it was closing today I don't think you'd tear your hair out or anything like that.
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Mr. Gasser followed the man to a service station, where Mr. Gasser "confronted him and began to strike him with a closed fist several times," the police said.
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A deal with API would create Italy's biggest service station operator, ahead of Eni and Kuwait Petroleum International which last year bought a network from Royal Dutch Shell.
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About an hour after Densmore was stopped, an employee of a service station about 35 miles away in Okmulgee, Oklahoma, found a purple suitcase inside a dumpster, Cordingly said.
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These 'plain vanilla' financings include multibillion dollar loans for farm equipment maker Deere & Co, cereal maker Kellogg Co, payments company Visa Inc and service station company Pilot Travel Centers.
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LONDON — Several coaches were damaged and one man was arrested as two opposing protest groups clashed at a service station on their way to demonstrations about refugees in Dover.
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After several missed turnings and an argument about the aux cord, Mongeau and Stuart started to panic and planned to get out the car at the next service station.
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While most gasoline is refined by a handful of major players, the quality depends on what ingredients are added to the fuel before it arrives at the service station.
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When it debuted on the opening weekend of the second Desert X biennial, fabric was draped over the awning of a former, now-derelict service station and billowed elegantly.
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"We cannot wait," Mr. Mello said, citing the demands of the Petrobras investigation, called Operation Carwash in reference to a service station in the capital, Brasília, that laundered money.
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Deese's mother said this summer she's watched the surveillance video of the couple's stop at the service station over and over again, and can't believe her daughter is gone.
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Belarus state oil company Belneftekhim said it had started receiving new supplies of Russian oil at its pipeline service station and was planning to start refining it on May 6.
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In April, Aramco said it had signed a memorandum of understanding with French firm Total to evaluate the feasibility of jointly buying a retail service station network in Saudi Arabia.
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Southwest of the city, a burned-out bus sat at the Flying J service station, which exploded as residents drove down Highway 63, the only escape route to the south.
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In a statement on Tuesday, the government said the ministers were looking to broker a deal between motorway operators and the service station networks to avoid pumps being switched off.
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Separately, Johnson has demanded information from the Commerce Department on two occasions related to a statement the agency released in September reprimanding its National Weather Service station in Birmingham, Ala.
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For the first time in 250, Oregon began allowing motorists to pump their own gas, leaving New Jersey as the last state to prohibit self-service at the service station.
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Queen Elizabeth II walks along the platform at King Lynn Train Station "It's an honour to have her use the train service," station manager Graeme Pratt told the Eastern Daily Press.
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I have literally never, as in not one single time, successfully completed a checkout at a self-service station in a grocery store without having to call a human employee over.
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Pop into the southbound Gloucester Services on the M5 though, and you'll find fishmonger Francis Phillips serving customers with fresh fish at the UK's only service station-based wet fish counter.
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The winning ticket (white balls 05, 25, 38, 687.83, 67; Powerball 24; Power Play multiplier 2X) was sold at Arnold's Service Station in Brooklyn, a New York Powerball official tells PEOPLE.
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From a Goldsboro, N.C., restaurant with a barbecue buffet to a service station just over the state line in South Carolina, people compare notes about what happened and what still might.
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The sheriff's office said a "verbal altercation" began between the two and the man went to a service station at Holmes Boulevard and Berhman Highway in Terrytown to refuel his vehicle.
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Gasser got into a 'verbal altercation' with another driver, then followed the driver into a service station and 'began to strike him with a closed fist,' according to the sheriff's office.
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He recorded a video as proof—and guaranteed viral internet success—and then took the car to the Tesla service station, where a Tesla professional removed an adorable kitten from the chassis.
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The country's north is facing far more service station closures than much of the rest of the country, and so are several major cities, including the Paris metropolitan area, Toulouse and Lyon.
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We stopped at a service station, my uncle asked the attendant for the key, and I went into the little bathroom at the side of the building, the one the truckers used.
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"No one was in the immediate vicinity so they decided to check the service station CCTV to try and identify a person or vehicle responsible for the drugs," the police wrote on Facebook.
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According to testimony, Mr. Gonzalez walked three blocks to an Amoco service station, where he found an empty one-gallon container and bought $1 worth of gasoline from an attendant he knew there.
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"The one thing I did that I'm always proud of — the first time I got money, I worked all one summer in a service station — I bought my mother some teeth," he said.
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MAHWAH, N.J. — Stephanie Long roared into a service station in her red Mustang late on Monday, yanked a red lollipop from her mouth and told the attendant to top off the tank, fast.
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In a statement later on Tuesday, Rome said the Transport and Industry ministers were looking to broker a deal between motorway operators and the service station networks to avoid pumps being switched off.
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After days of standing by the swimmers' story, the USOC also backed up other police evidence, including a security video showing the swimmers in an argument with staff at the Shell service station.
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Over the half-hour I was at the scene, several more arrived in their cars, pulled into the vacant lot — a former Mobil gas and service station — snapped a few photos, and left.
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The Art Deco building has a roll-up glass door entrance and a 1930s Indian Chief motorcycle inside that belonged to the original service station owner, along with a pinball machine from the 1970s.
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At the age of 40, after serving in the military and working a number of different jobs, Harland Sanders ran a service station in Kentucky and served fried chicken to bring in more customers.
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Abrini, a 31-year-old Belgian, has been on Europe's most wanted list since being seen on a motorway service station CCTV video driving with another Paris attacks suspect, Salah Abdeslam, towards Paris from Belgium.
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With its rounded form and porthole windows the AGIP service station looks like a submarine—an unambiguously nautical take on the influential Modernist architecture of the interwar years, the period in which it was built.
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Set in an isolated, semirural small town close enough to Canada that a nearby service station has a "petrol" sign, "As You Are" chronicles the vexed friendship of two teenage boys in the early 1990s.
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The city's Modernist buildings include an Art Deco bowling alley and the Fiat Tagliero building, a service station shaped something like an airplane, with a central tower supporting a pair of 60-foot cantilevered wings.
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Formed in 2014, G500 is an association of service station owners, established in response to the deregulation and represents around 12 percent of Mexico's service stations, selling around 160,000 barrels per day of diesel and gasoline.
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There's little odes to him in different things, like when you see the hats or the jeans, you'll see three chevron logos on the side, which is because my grandfather's service station was the chevron logo.
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When Robyn Denholm was young, growing up in the southwestern suburbs of Sydney, Australia, she became a "car enthusiast" by working at her family's service station, helping to pump gas, repair cars, and complete book work.
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One group even staged an impromptu photo shoot in front of the seal mural, which is on the actual former service station; the gentrification-themed mural is on the exterior wall of a neighboring pre-school.
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Welch, West Virginia (CNN)Each morning for the last 65 years, 93-year-old Ed Shepard has walked to work to open up the Union 251 service station, here in rolling hills of West Virginia coal country.
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"A Kentucky Renaissance man" Sanders first built an identity on fried chicken while running a service station with his mistress, who following his divorce would become his second wife — a point made in one of Sanders' autobiographies.
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Driving with his elbows to clean a bottle — which Mongeau thought contained chloroform — was the last straw for Mongeau and Imari, who decided to get out of the car early at the next service station they saw.
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FRANKFURT, Nov 15 (Reuters) - German motorway service station operator Tank & Rast, which is playing a key role in creating more charging points for electric cars, is open to working with interested parties on developing the network further.
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It's nice to find that Malcolm Somers, the man who edits Travelers and has other, more secretive business to attend to, knows exactly what to pick up at a service station while being tailed by hostile strangers.
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Now, here's a fine obituary in The Suffolk Times for the former Chicago Cubs pitcher Bill Hands, who owned the Orient Service Station on the North Fork of Long Island until his death last week at 76.
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The service station strategy appears to be working: In 2015, about 34 percent of in-store profits at convenience markets came from food and beverage service, up from 5413 percent in 2010, according to the trade organization.
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The killing took place in the town of Tabay when a fight in a service station queue led to gunshots, Tabay Mayor Jose Otalora said in a telephone interview, adding that those involved had been drinking alcohol.
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White service station operators generally would allow black motorists to purchase gasoline but they might refuse to sell the driver a Coca-Cola or to open the bathroom, which could cause great humiliation, especially in front of one's children.
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At first, her stepfather found only part-time work as a computer science teacher, so the family of five — Ms. Sinema, her mother, her stepfather and her two siblings — moved into what had been built as a service station.
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In Zillah, the Teapot Dome Service Station is a charming piece of vernacular architecture built in 1922 to draw attention to the famous scandal of the Warren Harding administration; it is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
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SAN CRISTOBAL, Venezuela (Reuters) - A Venezuelan man was killed on Saturday night in a service station line in the western state of Merida, a municipal mayor said on Sunday, signaling the growing impact of the OPEC nation's fuel shortages.
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When they pull over at a remote service station to buy gasoline and a lighter to torch the body and the Dark Army van they stole, they emerge to discover that their victim has recovered and driven off, stranding them.
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In December, the NSW government announced it would push service station operators to disclose their prices in real-time, but Moulis said while such information could be useful, crowdsourcing would remain a faster and more responsive method of collecting price data.
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While big-box stores will likely not contribute to the demise of smaller stations to the same extent in the future, increasing fuel efficiency standards and rising land prices will continue to threaten the livelihoods of small service station owners.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - Tian Bing has spent six straight nights curled up in the back of his white sedan, stranded at an expressway service station in eastern Jiangsu province in China because of a blockade aimed at curbing the spread of the coronavirus.
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No one wins in that game because you'll find yourself staring at a blank spreadsheet listening to Leonard Cohen and the next thing you know you'll be sat in a service station Burger King eating a Long Texas BBQ that's sodden with tears.
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The sisters left the coach at Keele service station—which isn't a scheduled rest stop—either because they were feeling unwell, as stated by the police report that would follow, or because, as the bus driver has claimed, they were acting erratically.
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He then made his way to Alaska's interior—paradise for a devoted outdoorsman such as himself—where, along with his wife, Elizabeth, he opened and ran a service station at milepost 188.5 along the Parks Highway, pumping gas for visitors to Denali.
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The building featuring the seal stencil at 1249 Coney Island Avenue, a former Mobil gas and service station, is slated for demolition to make way for a four-story, 50,000-square-foot self-storage complex being built by Safe N Lock (SNL).
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One of the biggest assets on the block is a 51 percent voting stake in its fuels distribution unit, BR Distribuidora SA. A previous bidding round for a minority stake in Brazil's largest service station operator failed to attract bids that met Petrobras' requirements.
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We spend an artery-hardening £1.2 billion on fish and chips annually, and the UK boasts just shy of 1,000 Wetherspoons pubs, including one in a service station in Buckinghamshire—because why let a lengthy motorway drive get in the way of a bevvy?
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ERBIL, Iraq — At least 80 people, many of them Shiite pilgrims on their way home to Iran, were killed on Thursday when an Islamic State suicide bomber detonated a truck filled with explosives at a roadside service station in southern Iraq, local officials said.
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At one point during the day, the group was flagged stealing gas at a service station and the police were able to track the car down using a cell phone signal — finding it parked on the side of the road in Grafton around 10:40 p.m.
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"I paid $40 to a National Guard officer at a service station in the municipality of San Francisco to fill my gas tank," said Ana Maria Ojeda, a 56-year-old merchant who had spent six days in line in an area near the city of Maracaibo.
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Michelin built this ornate headquarters-cum-service-station in 1911, incorporating exuberant tire and motoring imagery into its design, including the big Bibendum-themed stained glass windows that account for much of the airy second-floor dining room's whimsical charm (there's informal dining on the ground floor).
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You can now use Apple Pay to buy gas at 6,000 ExxonMobil locations across the U.S. The transactions can be made through the free Speedpass app, meaning that customers won't have to get out of the car to fill their tank, if they're at a full-service station.
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It was about four in the morning by the time Pete and Letitia, a middle-aged couple living on the outskirts of Quaama, decided to pack up the car and get out, driving through the heart of the firestorm to take shelter at the nearby Rural Fire Service station.
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The U.S. Grains Council, the American Coalition for Ethanol and the Mexican Association of Service Station Equipment Suppliers have been working with Mexican officials to host workshops in Mexico to promote the use of a 10 percent blend of ethanol, referred to as E203, in the nation's transportation fuel.
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Take a look at the above post wherein Will Smith filters a life coach quote through the Philadelphian translation machine that is his mind into the phrase "don't be hanging with no jank-ass jokers that don't help you shine"—something I think we can all agree should be placed atop all those fridge magnets you see hanging around in garden centres and service station counter tops.
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With that in mind, the joint venture set up by the German carmakers and Ford to install CCS fast-chargers has teamed up with companies that have service station networks in Europe: Shell, OMV, Germany's Tank & Rast and retailer Circle K. For traditional carmakers, getting ahead in the electric car race is also about staying relevant in an industry that has been shaken up by Tesla.
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Mr. Margolies, who died on May 26, at 76, was considered the country's foremost photographer of vernacular architecture — the coffee shops shaped like coffeepots; the gas station shaped like a teapot (the Teapot Dome Service Station in Zillah, Wash.); and the motels shaped like all manner of things, from wigwams to zeppelins to railroad cars — that once stood as proud totems along America's blue highways.
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The truck disappeared along the dark road as suddenly as it had arrived, and I realized all the things I hadn't asked Natalia: how long would it take, was the service station nearby, why didn't they go to Clorinda if it was close, did the trucker seem trustworthy, what should we do if another truck or even a car came by—should we stop it?
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You can ask Google Home's Australian assistant where the nearest Maccas is, and it'll respond if you ask it to play some Acca Dacca (that's McDonald's and AC/DC, for those playing at home.) "We spent a lot of time making sure it understands Aussie accents, understands Aussie words like servo (service station), brekky (breakfast), and also put an Aussie personality in many aspects of the product," Shah added.
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You can't feasibly plan a wine trip to this part of Arizona without hitting the four-block stretch of Main Street, where Burning Tree Cellars, Pillsbury Wine Company, and Merkin Vineyards Tasting Room & Osteria (the flagship restaurant run by Maynard Keenan, a wine entrepreneur and lead singer of the alt-metal band, Tool) share real estate with a rock shop, a biker saloon and a 1940s service station repurposed as a diner.
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