Before there were service or filling stations that catered solely to cars, early day motorists gassed up their horseless carriages at quaint country stores. Behind the store there was a wood barrel where the gasoline was kept. The motorist used a funnel, a chamois skin to strain out water and dirt, and a one-gallon measure to fill up. During 1940, when the photograph pictured below was taken, travelers could buy smokes and a Coke while the visible-registered pump dispensed gasoline at the Saw Pit Store. This store was a whistle stop located along the tracks of the Rio Grande Southern Railroad in picturesque Sawpit, Colorado. Festooned with tin and porcelain signs advertising all kinds of popular consumer products, these country stores sold gas only as a sideline. Besides the vintage signs, the milk-glass globe on top of the pump is a coveted petroleum collectible.