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A filling station attendant or gas station attendant (also known as a gas jockey in the US and Canada [1] [2]) is a worker at a full-service filling station who performs services other than accepting payment. Tasks usually include pumping fuel, cleaning windshields, and checking vehicle oil levels.
Pre-fabricated gas station, Culver City, California, US 1977 Filling station in Argos, Greece. A filling station (also known as a gas station or petrol station ) is a facility that sells fuel and engine lubricants for motor vehicles. The most common fuels sold are gasoline (or petrol) and diesel fuel.
The Leathers Oil Company murders refers to an unsolved mass murder that occurred in Gresham, Oregon, United States, on January 17, 1994.The victims were Virginia Kay Endecott (born July 15, 1946); [1] Rosealie Fey-Girtz (born September 17, 1942); [2] and Mary Beth Carey (born May 16, 1968), [3] each of whom were employed at the Leathers Oil Company gas station.
A few areas have gas stations that use electronic tolling transponders as a method of payment, such as Via Verde in Portugal. Pay at the pump was first invented in 1973 by George Randolph “Randy” Nicholson (1937 ( 1937 ) –2020 ( 2021 ) ), debuting at an E-Z Serve gas station in Abilene, Texas , but did not take off until the 1980s.
The Kwik-E-Mart (spelled "Quick-E-Mart" in "Bart the General") is a convenience store in the animated television series The Simpsons.It is a parody of American convenience stores, such as 7-Eleven and Cumberland Farms, and depicts many of the stereotypes about them.
EKO – 80 stations in Quebec; Esso – supplies approximately 2000 stations across Canada owned by various companies that use the Esso name under license from Imperial Oil, which is majority-owned by Exxon; Federated Co-operatives [1] – Refine and supply 386 service stations in their network of independent co-operatives.
Ronald James Read (October 23, 1921 – June 2, 2014) was an American philanthropist, investor, janitor, and gas station attendant. Read grew up in Dummerston, Vermont, in an impoverished farming household. He walked or hitchhiked 4 mi (6.4 km) daily to his high school and was the first high school graduate in his family.
On their way to California, the trio stops at a gas station. Tom shows the strange gas station attendant a picture of Jesse and Nicole and asks if he had seen them. The attendant says he did see them and warned them to be careful. Jared finds a horse-riding badge that belonged to Nicole, prompting Tom to demand more information from the attendant.