Gas Stations: Landmarks of the American Roadside

By Wayne Henderson and Scott Benjamin, 224 pages, softcover, 1994. Price: $19.95. Published by Motorbooks International, Osceola, WI. Available from Motorbooks International at (800) 826-6600 or by visiting www.motorbooks.com

"Gas Stations: Landmarks of the American Roadside" offers readers more than 500 hundred nostalgic, never-before published black-and-white photos, from public and private collections, of the American gas station. Beginning with a brief history of the development and growth of gas stations throughout the decades, this book provides readers with a pictorial history, from the early 1900s through the mid-1990s, of the changing face of America as seen through its gas stations. Photo captions include location and historical detail about the stations. From the authors of "Guide to Gasoline Logos."