the ubiquitous gas pump…route 66 owes its identity to the car, but without the gas pump, there would be no way for the cars to get anywhere…of course, they were a seemingly simple pump device for dispensing gas, but it also had to calculate the amount of gas that was pumped and it had to do it in as safe a manner as possible…each brand created a unique design for the pumps that stood guard out front…and this was a time when an attendant pumped the gas, checked your oil and washed your windshield, service highly touted along the old route…and then there was the clean restroom…