Polly gas globe Baby Onesie

It seems that Polly began as a chain of independently-owned stations selling gasoline in California in the teens and twenties. Polly later became a part of Wilshire Oil of Los Angeles during the Depression.
Polly stations were a common sight on the West coast from the twenties through the fifties before and after the war. Around 1960, Gulf bought Wilshire, and Polly stations became Gulf stations.

Bob likes to make people think when they see his images. With some post-processing, he can turn the ordinary into something interesting. Subjects include close-ups of old cars, hot rods, old tractors and motorcycles. Zooming in on the hood ornament, logo or emblem on a car, produces interesting images too. Many that he captures are from makes and models of cars, cycles and farm equipment that provoke a memory in some people's minds. In the realm of mandalas or sacred circles, I enjoy taking a picture of an ordinary, everyday object and turning it into a multicolored, explosion of color and abstract art. With changes in cameras and software, photographers are becoming digital artists. “Don’t shoot what...