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Jun
15
Lost Places | Station Service Fermée
Automotive Photography / Blog / DBS France / Drive-by Snapshots / Lost Places Posted by Sebastian Motsch
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Station Service Fermée
Lost Places | Rust in Peace
There are many reasons why I love France. One of them is the fact, that the French do not immediately dismount the pumps after a petrol station goes out of business. Instead they just display the lowest possible price on the signpost, call it a day and wander off to play a game of Pétanque with their friends, enjoying a glass of red wine.
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Sep
07
Lost Places | Beheaded bodies, robbed carcasses and zombies
Automotive Photography / Blog / Citroen / DBS France / Drive-by Snapshots / JCB / Lost Places / Peugeot Posted by Sebastian Motsch
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Beheaded bodies, robbed carcasses and zombies
Lost Places | Rust in Peace
Discovering a defunct service station displaying a sign saying Station Ouverte was already weird in its’ own right. The place looked like it had been left in a hurry and the proprietors haven’t returned since. Being the kind of person who is always keen to figure out what might have happened, I walked around the building and found… the carcass of a little vehicle the French call La Deuche.
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Sep
07
Lost Places | Station Service Ouverte
Automotive Photography / Blog / DBS France / Drive-by Snapshots / Lost Places / Peugeot / Renault Posted by Sebastian Motsch
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Station Service Ouverte
Lost Places | Rust in Peace
Yesterdays’ post featured a small service station that went out of business, but isn’t fenced off or has a sign saying so. The story today is different. You are looking at pictures of a substantially bigger service station that, for lack of a better word, is closed. Nonetheless, it does sport a sign saying: Station Ouverte.
To tell you the honest truth – this place looked like a film set straight out of a zombie movie! The lack of traffic, heavy clouds and a slight drizzle didn’t make it any more friendly or welcoming!
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Sep
05
Lost Places | Station Service abandonné en St. Priest-de-Gimel
Automotive Photography / Blog / DBS France / Drive-by Snapshots / Lost Places / Mercedes-Benz / Peugeot Posted by Sebastian Motsch
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Station Service abandonné en St. Priest-de-Gimel
Lost Places | Rust in Peace
Driving past this abandoned service station in 2007 sparked a memory. A long time ago, when I was a young boy, we used to take the same route between Clermand-Ferrand and Bordeaux. If I remember correctly, this station was still in service back then and we might even have stopped there to fill up.
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May
31
Lost places | Station du Haut-Limousin
Automotive Photography / Blog / DBS France / Drive-by Snapshots / Lost Places / Mercedes-Benz Posted by Sebastian Motsch
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Station du Haut-Limousin
Lost Places | Rust in Peace
In 2009 we found an abandoned service station, somewhere in the Haut-Limousin region of France. I quite like the old fashioned architectural approach and design. The service station and garage must have been very busy, at a time long gone and almost forgotten. Inside, it was completely empty. Thoughts of buying it bugged me and I couldn’t forget it for a long time. In 2013, I drove past it again – and didn’t even bother to stop and take a picture. It had been converted into a mattress store. Painted in awful colors, with ugly billboards and cheap advertising – destroying the vintage character of the building completely. It was really sad, to see it in such an unattractive condition. 🙁
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