Judge — August 30, 1930 — page 23: what you’re looking at

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) } j | ] | | ) | | i WA “Fill Her Up, Sir?” tte first’ evidence that the slightly uncontrolled imagina- tion of California has crept into our sober East crops up down Long Island way. Specifically. the Shell Gas Company, colorful in the Spanish we s station at Rockville Center which boasts a large swimming pool with two spring- > has hoards, beach chairs, umbrellas gay with the company’s red and yellow, three splendid sand piles for the kiddies and, in case you tennis courts, stop there on business, it even has gas und done, however, ure shows best in If I remember my Hollywood, you get your gas at the Taj M the Parthenon, the Vati- ions. can, th at Rheims, Le Petit Trianon, the Metropolitan Museum of Art onal Capitol—but never a e with a pump. ‘These architectural masterpieces are manned by young, handsome college graduates who are starting a life’s career with Shell, Richfield, or Esso, and are the politest, most obliging windshield wipers in the world. ‘The Eastern stations might take lessons from them in Old World courtesy and cleaning the windshield, both of which they are sadly deficient. JUDGE d Z LWA T= proves to be s about-town, leaving a party in his cups, charters a hack and sets. sail for the granite hills of Vt. where he has friends who lead the good, cle: life The meter if the cab not a gyp (thirty or forty cents a mile) are whatever 387 miles INFLUENCE X 20¢ per mile Travel Bureau Tee tell me it is a sight now past the wonder of the lounging yokels of a Sunday morning in the arty town of Woodstock, Vt. A New York taxi cab straggles into to a stop and dis- ch very 1y-looking — indi- vidual, who, looking the worse for an WE NDE aL Mest : ges oa se all-night trip and a , proceeds to ve a little tiff over the meter charges, The indi- vidual usually \E THE DROUGHT CONTINUE M a OUED You so My winds? the scenery. comes ; Qe my v8 psu i SUNIOR, YouRE RGHT! 1, SERVICE MEN, DAMMUM comes to + a tip the fare back to New (Dyer Ban oe MUSH Tacy N Tos” \) ate NE AED TOLITER : “MAC taxi-drivers cannot charge the i boy, they do. sive for that is twenty dollars by train. If you will get out of control and burn ‘money like this, I recommend the Grand Central Cadillac Renting something about They provide a comfortable, 1 courteous (unfinger-printed ) nd charge about 40¢ per mile. which includes the return expenses. Thus it will cost about $210 from New York to Montr $40) from N. Y. to Southampton; $400 to Chi- ¢ $500 to Miami, and $1,200 to Los Angeles. Agen Unimportant Items Kid Chocolate influence on lem is getting a bit out of The (Continued on page 32) hand. comicbooks.com