Continuing on with our look at the bygone era of filling stations, we leave Kittitas County and head south to Yakima County and the town of Zillah. Here for many years stood the oldest continuously operated filling station in America, the Teapot Dome. The building built in 1922 was constructed as a reminder of the Teapot Dome Scandal that was currently rocking the country and the Harding White House. The little Teapot pumped fuel for 85 years before closing in 2007. This sort of building is once represented America, built by hand, it is a symbol of resourcefulness, it's message is a form of grass rooting activism, its shape unique like its country and maybe most telling is the rye wit and bit of sarcasm about the whole thing.
Wednesday, October 13, 2010
The Teapot
Continuing on with our look at the bygone era of filling stations, we leave Kittitas County and head south to Yakima County and the town of Zillah. Here for many years stood the oldest continuously operated filling station in America, the Teapot Dome. The building built in 1922 was constructed as a reminder of the Teapot Dome Scandal that was currently rocking the country and the Harding White House. The little Teapot pumped fuel for 85 years before closing in 2007. This sort of building is once represented America, built by hand, it is a symbol of resourcefulness, it's message is a form of grass rooting activism, its shape unique like its country and maybe most telling is the rye wit and bit of sarcasm about the whole thing.
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