They were no longer in daily use, but when I was a kid in north central Missouri, the station down the street still had the old visible pumps. They were still functional, and were used a couple of times when I was a kid when the town lost electricity. Wish I had a picture to prove it, but memory says 6 cents.
For those too young to remember, these had a hand crank pump, and one pumped the volume one wanted into the top of the pump (the glass had graduations), and then the gasoline would gravity flow into ones vehicle. I may have a picture in some of the old school yearbooks, as the owner always would be one of the yearbook sponsors.
Jon.
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