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 Even when we were half way around the world from the United States, we would run into unexpected scenes that  would somehow remind us of life back home.  This is a perfect example.

I'm sure by 1965, most of us took the electric gasoline pump for granted.  When seen in Vietnam or anywhere in Southeast Asia, however,  the somewhat "modern", at least for 1965!,  electric gasoline pump just didn't seem to fit in with the setting.  With very few exceptions, throughout Southeast Asia, gasoline was pumped into gas tanks much as it was in the United States in the 1920's, by hand pumping into the measuring device above, and then by letting  gravity "do it's thing" into the tank of the vehicle.

    This "Gas Station",  in Vinh Long,  became a very popular gathering 
spot for a bit of conversation,  and, of course, a cold  XaXi "Sarsaparilla" (root beer). 
   It is well accepted that VietNam's economic development was at least a hundred years behind the United States, so this was indeed very progressive for it's time!
 
 
 

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