The day before I had to leave LA... I took the van on side streets about 45 miles to take my sister out to lunch... I hate the freeway traffic and figure if I'm going to be stopped it might as well have something to look at...
Anyway... one of the places on my drive was the neighborhood I grew up in... little town called Cerritos. On the corner of South and Carmanita was the Union gas Station I worked in as a kid... it wasn't my first job or even a wrenching job... I was simply a pump jockey... The Station was my life in High School...
So you can imagine how bummed I was to see it being torn down... ( to put up a Starbucks? )... Just sitting there watching the boss man walked up and asked if he could help me ... and I asked there was any way I could snag something that would serve as a reminder of the place... and he was more then kind... gave me a few minutes to wander and snatch up the Bells for the pumps and the phone... They are twin bells with some kind of solenoids that actuate a ringer.... have 3 wires coming out of them...and they've been painted ... 30-50 times...
Very cool piece of my history... now to get them working in my shop here in Alabama... ( we have power around here somewhere )....
K
Anyway... one of the places on my drive was the neighborhood I grew up in... little town called Cerritos. On the corner of South and Carmanita was the Union gas Station I worked in as a kid... it wasn't my first job or even a wrenching job... I was simply a pump jockey... The Station was my life in High School...
So you can imagine how bummed I was to see it being torn down... ( to put up a Starbucks? )... Just sitting there watching the boss man walked up and asked if he could help me ... and I asked there was any way I could snag something that would serve as a reminder of the place... and he was more then kind... gave me a few minutes to wander and snatch up the Bells for the pumps and the phone... They are twin bells with some kind of solenoids that actuate a ringer.... have 3 wires coming out of them...and they've been painted ... 30-50 times...
Very cool piece of my history... now to get them working in my shop here in Alabama... ( we have power around here somewhere )....
K
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