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ACCESSION NUMBER   976:0021:0363
CATEGORY   Services, Automotive
TITLE   Unidentified auto repair shop
DESCRIPTION   Interior view of an unidentified auto repair shop in Corpus Christi, Texas, which serviced gas pumps and tank trucks for all of the district Texaco stations. Two men stand in the center of a wood and corrugated metal workshop. The man at left is wearing light-colored work clothes covered with grease or oil. The man at right wears clean work clothes and a necktie, the latter indicating his job as a tank truck driver. Both his cap and shirt bear Texaco logos. to the left of the men is a work table, above which hang wrenches and other hand tools. Note the Modern Engineering Assembly Chart and gasoline pump hoses on the wall and the cans of Texaco cap grease on the floor.
SUBJECT   Automobile repair shops. (lcsh)
Interiors. (lctgm)
Mechanics (Persons). (lctgm)
Men. (lcsh)
Truck drivers. (lcsh)
United States--Texas--Corpus Christi. (lcsh)