Years and years ago, before high-tech took over the world, utilitarian things such as gas pumps exhibited extreme workmanship and even savoir faire. For sure, they were workhorses, but these pumps ...

TWO RIVERS, Wis. — In the 1950s, a gallon of gas didn't cost $3.50 and Texaco, Mobil and Sinclair Dino gasoline electric pumps were the standard at gas stations. Today, they are something car ...

Jerry Corrion found a piece of history in a friend’s field, among housing-remodel debris and a thicket of blackberries. What Corrion stumbled across in the Avon area of Skagit County west of Mount ...

Laurie Carritt holds a photo of his father Art Carritt, standing at the pumps at the Eckville, Alta., Super Service when his pumps were sealed by the federal government after he refused to convert to ...

After Chris Stoltzfus launched PA Auction Center in 2008, it took some real effort to find things to sell from his building next to White Oak Campground outside Quarryville. But hard work soon began ...

Advertising signs might be made to drum up business for the present, but the signs Chris Webb of Knoxville likes are those that harken back to the past. The mortgage banker has become an avid ...

He's sanded and bead-blasted her body, smoothed the rough edges, and banished the rust. He's caressed on so many coats of paint she glimmers in the sun. He's carefully rebuilt her from the ground up, ...