Texas Service Station [1965]
Trust your car to the man who wears the star!
Straight from the archives of Southern Methodist University, this photo is of a new Texaco service station outside of Houston TX – taken by Robert Yarnall Richie in 1965. Richie was a noted commercial photographer, who took pictures for large businesses around the US. He died in 1984.
The station is designed in the “Mid-Century” style, with its flat roof and jaunty positive feeling. It would be a fairly new structure, based on the size of the trees surrounding the property. That’s a `65 Ford Custom sedan in front of the fetching green-topped building. There is also a `64 Ford Galaxie inside the station getting service. At the pumps: a `65 Mustang fastback, a `65 Buick Electra, and `64 Ford pickup.