Story behind the photo: No Smoking. No spitting. Gasoline -16 cents a gallon.

• Published July 12th, 2011 by Ron Ragan
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I love old things; especially old signs. In 2010 I took these pictures of an old, run-down (and obviously closed) Texaco gas station, located on a back road, off of another back road, deep in the Texas hill country.

The scene is almost as if time stood still the minute the station closed for the last time. The gasoline price sign reads an amazing 16¢ a gallon (of which 1¢ was federal tax and 5¢ was state tax).

I am older than dirt, but I do not ever remember gasoline being that cheap. I am just guessing this station closed sometime in the early 1960s.

The two blue signs on the door read: “No Smoking” and “No Spitting.”