Perhaps better described by the subtitle, “A short history of service station architecture,” Ray Scroggins’s article from SIA #30, September-October 1975, examines the look, purpose and practice of service station design, with a keen eye to the motivation behind the various designs over the years and to just how gasoline was made available to the average motorist over the years. Were it up to me, they’d all look like the Louisville, Kentucky, Standard Oil station. Oh, and they’d bring back the Sohio name.